For the second-straight day, Mississippi reported Saturday a daily record for the number of new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus as the state released the latest statistics.

In addition, both the  7-day  and 14-day daily averages of new cases climbed to new records as well.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 439 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 15,229.

The state announced Saturday morning 13 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 723. One of the deaths reported Saturday occurred earlier in the month, but the reporting was delayed.

Mississippi’s 7-day average of new cases increased to 318 per day, an all-time high. The 14-day average of daily new cases also rose Saturday hitting 293 cases per day, also a new high.

The state reported that 365 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 50 percent of all deaths in the state.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	196	15	43	8
Alcorn	17	1	0	0
Amite	60	1	12	1
Attala	292	16	80	14
Benton	15	0	1	0
Bolivar	160	11	17	4
Calhoun	64	4	23	4
Carroll	117	11	46	9
Chickasaw	133	12	34	8
Choctaw	43	2	0	0
Claiborne	111	2	8	1
Clarke	143	18	17	7
Clay	112	4	0	0
Coahoma	121	4	0	0
Copiah	310	4	0	0
Covington	165	2	1	0
Desoto	533	7	19	2
Forrest	553	38	87	27
Franklin	28	2	2	1
George	25	1	0	0
Greene	12	1	0	0
Grenada	89	3	14	2
Hancock	90	11	9	3
Harrison	257	7	3	2
Hinds	999	25	81	13
Holmes	397	28	80	14
Humphreys	60	7	16	5
Itawamba	87	7	34	6
Jackson	305	13	40	4
Jasper	157	4	1	0
Jefferson	42	1	0	0
Jefferson Davis	77	2	4	1
Jones	598	25	82	13
Kemper	144	11	32	7
Lafayette	131	4	38	1
Lamar	235	5	5	2
Lauderdale	735	61	194	40
Lawrence	102	1	1	0
Leake	421	12	1	0
Lee	149	6	20	1
Leflore	258	31	84	18
Lincoln	256	28	86	21
Lowndes	211	9	19	5
Madison	720	23	101	12
Marion	115	9	14	2
Marshall	83	3	2	0
Monroe	255	25	92	22
Montgomery	83	1	0	0
Neshoba	630	38	69	21
Newton	271	4	5	0
Noxubee	185	6	14	3
Oktibbeha	235	12	45	8
Panola	70	3	0	0
Pearl River	209	31	45	11
Perry	50	3	0	0
Pike	202	11	15	6
Pontotoc	32	3	3	1
Prentiss	52	3	22	3
Quitman	26	0	0	0
Rankin	421	7	7	0
Scott	650	12	13	2
Sharkey	7	0	0	0
Simpson	101	0	5	0
Smith	150	11	30	7
Stone	30	0	0	0
Sunflower	81	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	27	1	0	0
Tate	89	1	2	0
Tippah	73	11	0	0
Tishomingo	32	0	1	0
Tunica	54	3	12	2
Union	83	5	20	4
Walthall	55	0	0	0
Warren	171	9	37	7
Washington	168	7	8	1
Wayne	177	1	2	0
Webster	69	1	18	0
Wilkinson	88	9	5	2
Winston	112	1	0	0
Yalobusha	90	5	27	5
Yazoo	273	4	11	2
Total	15,229	723	1,859	365

For more detailed graphics on Mississippi’s coronavirus statistics, please visit:

https://magnoliastatelive.com/video-mississippis-coronavirus-case-by-the-numbers/