The Latest: Mississippi coronavirus cases jump again yesterday, along with death toll; See county by county results
Mississippi State Health Department officials announced Tuesday morning the latest number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the state and the number of cases (and the death toll) continue to rise.
The state confirmed 937 cases of coronavirus had been found in Mississippi, that’s an increase of 90 cases since yesterday. Twenty people have died as result of the virus, the state confirmed. The death toll increased by 4 deaths since yesterday.
Here are the county by county numbers:
| County | Cases | Deaths |
| Adams | 10 | |
| Alcorn | 3 | |
| Amite | 4 | 1 |
| Attala | 10 | |
| Benton | 4 | |
| Bolivar | 22 | 1 |
| Calhoun | 3 | |
| Carroll | 1 | |
| Chickasaw | 13 | |
| Choctaw | 6 | |
| Claiborne | 1 | |
| Clarke | 4 | |
| Clay | 4 | |
| Coahoma | 21 | |
| Copiah | 9 | |
| Covington | 2 | |
| Desoto | 84 | 1 |
| Forrest | 21 | |
| Franklin | 3 | |
| George | 3 | |
| Grenada | 3 | |
| Hancock | 16 | 1 |
| Harrison | 45 | 1 |
| Hinds | 90 | |
| Holmes | 15 | 1 |
| Humphreys | 3 | |
| Itawamba | 3 | |
| Jackson | 40 | |
| Jefferson | 1 | |
| Jones | 6 | |
| Kemper | 1 | |
| Lafayette | 15 | 1 |
| Lamar | 5 | |
| Lauderdale | 35 | |
| Lawrence | 5 | |
| Leake | 5 | |
| Lee | 24 | 1 |
| Leflore | 19 | 1 |
| Lincoln | 11 | |
| Lowndes | 11 | |
| Madison | 42 | |
| Marion | 5 | |
| Marshall | 14 | |
| Monroe | 6 | |
| Montgomery | 7 | 1 |
| Neshoba | 4 | |
| Newton | 2 | |
| Noxubee | 3 | |
| Oktibbeha | 17 | |
| Panola | 7 | 1 |
| Pearl River | 30 | |
| Perry | 3 | 1 |
| Pike | 17 | |
| Pontotoc | 5 | |
| Prentiss | 4 | |
| Quitman | 3 | |
| Rankin | 40 | 1 |
| Scott | 10 | |
| Sharkey | 1 | |
| Simpson | 2 | |
| Smith | 1 | |
| Sunflower | 11 | 1 |
| Tallahatchie | 2 | |
| Tate | 11 | |
| Tippah | 26 | 2 |
| Tishomingo | 1 | |
| Tunica | 12 | 1 |
| Union | 3 | |
| Walthall | 5 | |
| Warren | 1 | |
| Washington | 20 | |
| Webster | 5 | 1 |
| Wilkinson | 14 | 2 |
| Winston | 7 | |
| Yalobusha | 6 | |
| Yazoo | 9 | |
| Total | 937 | 20 |
Only 6 of Mississippi’s 82 counties have yet to report a case of the coronavirus. Those include Greene, Issaquena, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Stone and Wayne counties.
Coronavirus cases are on the rise all across states in the Deep South. For details on state by state results from across the South, click here.