Mississippi State Health Department officials announced Friday morning the second-highest single day increase in COVID-19 coronavirus cases within the state.

State health officials reported 281 new confirmed cases of the virus Friday, bringing the state’s total to 5,434 cases since March 11. It was the 16th day in a row the number of new cases rose by more than 100.

The state reported 8 more people died in the state over the last 24 hours due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 209.

State health officials are also now reporting racial breakdowns of both cases and deaths.

Black Mississippians make up 52.6% of all positive coronavirus cases. But blacks make up 61% of the deaths related to the virus.

The state also tracks the number cases found in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes that are considered high risk due to their residents being in close confines, often being older and often having underlying health issues.

For the sake of reporting, the state considers even a single case of coronavirus among staff or residents of these facilities as an “outbreak” and are tracked by county below.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total Cases in LTC Facilities
Adams	104	7	14
Alcorn	9	0	0
Amite	23	0	1
Attala	68	0	8
Benton	9	0	0
Bolivar	90	7	13
Calhoun	46	3	22
Carroll	15	1	0
Chickasaw	53	4	16
Choctaw	13	1	0
Claiborne	13	0	0
Clarke	43	3	9
Clay	29	2	0
Coahoma	54	2	1
Copiah	65	1	1
Covington	43	0	0
Desoto	256	4	2
Forrest	174	7	16
Franklin	16	0	0
George	11	1	0
Greene	4	1	0
Grenada	27	0	14
Hancock	56	5	7
Harrison	157	6	1
Hinds	401	6	10
Holmes	92	5	16
Humphreys	14	3	1
Itawamba	32	1	13
Jackson	235	6	35
Jasper	29	1	0
Jefferson	5	0	0
Jefferson Davis	19	1	0
Jones	104	0	6
Kemper	31	0	1
Lafayette	83	3	16
Lamar	82	2	0
Lauderdale	268	18	65
Lawrence	26	0	1
Leake	136	1	0
Lee	70	4	4
Leflore	124	14	26
Lincoln	132	7	44
Lowndes	38	2	2
Madison	178	4	10
Marion	55	4	12
Marshall	40	2	0
Monroe	117	9	49
Montgomery	17	1	0
Neshoba	116	2	1
Newton	51	0	1
Noxubee	35	0	0
Oktibbeha	46	3	6
Panola	38	2	0
Pearl River	144	13	28
Perry	23	1	0
Pike	127	4	8
Pontotoc	18	2	1
Prentiss	29	0	17
Quitman	14	0	0
Rankin	154	4	4
Scott	200	0	7
Sharkey	4	0	0
Simpson	36	0	2
Smith	55	3	17
Stone	22	0	0
Sunflower	51	2	0
Tallahatchie	11	1	0
Tate	38	0	1
Tippah	50	7	0
Tishomingo	7	0	0
Tunica	34	1	12
Union	14	1	1
Walthall	27	0	1
Warren	39	2	0
Washington	74	3	4
Wayne	16	0	0
Webster	17	1	0
Wilkinson	66	7	5
Winston	38	0	0
Yalobusha	17	0	0
Yazoo	117	1	0
Total	5,434	209	552

Table above now lists the number of cases in long-term care facilities, and not the number of facilities with outbreaks.

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

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