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The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 increased across Southwest Mississippi on Friday, including a 55% increase in confirmed virus cases in Adams County.

The Mississippi Department of Health reported 15 new cases of the virus in Adams County, bringing the total number of cases to 42.

The state also reported a rise in cases in Wilkinson and Franklin counties in Southwest Mississippi.

In Wilkinson County, 3 new cases were reported, bringing the county’s total to 37.

One new case was reported in Franklin County, bringing the county’s total to 9.

For the second day in a row, more than 200 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by the Mississippi State Department of Health.

State health officials reported 209 new confirmed cases of the virus Friday, bringing the state’s total to 2,469 cases since March 11.

The state also reported an additional 6 deaths in the state due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 82.

State health officials also track 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	Cases	Deaths	LTCs with Outbreaks
Adams	42	1	2
Alcorn	7
Amite	10	1	1
Attala	17
Benton	5
Bolivar	61	3	2
Calhoun	13		1
Carroll	7
Chickasaw	21	2	1
Choctaw	9	1
Claiborne	3
Clarke	13	1	1
Clay	17
Coahoma	37	1
Copiah	30
Covington	8
Desoto	158	1
Forrest	76	2	1
Franklin	9
George	7
Greene	1
Grenada	10
Hancock	37	5	2
Harrison	99	4	2
Hinds	219	2	3
Holmes	39	3
Humphreys	9	1
Itawamba	8
Jackson	135	5	1
Jasper	10
Jefferson	4		1
Jefferson Davis	5
Jones	25		1
Kemper	14
Lafayette	28	1
Lamar	28	1
Lauderdale	118	6	4
Lawrence	7
Leake	22
Lee	41	2
Leflore	43	4	1
Lincoln	41	3	2
Lowndes	19
Madison	95	2	1
Marion	17		1
Marshall	28	1
Monroe	25	1	2
Montgomery	14	1
Neshoba	21
Newton	10		1
Noxubee	6
Oktibbeha	36	1	2
Panola	22	1
Pearl River	77	4	2
Perry	15	1
Pike	39	1	1
Pontotoc	14	1
Prentiss	12		2
Quitman	12
Rankin	88	2
Scott	47		1
Sharkey	3
Simpson	7
Smith	17	1	1
Stone	5
Sunflower	34	1
Tallahatchie	3
Tate	22
Tippah	42	6	1
Tishomingo	2
Tunica	18	1	1
Union	7		1
Walthall	16
Warren	12		1
Washington	48	2	2
Wayne	7
Webster	13	1
Wilkinson	40	3	1
Winston	17
Yalobusha	11
Yazoo	55	1
Total	2,469	82	47