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Saturday morning the Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 173 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 11 new deaths.

Adams County’s cases rose to 49 still with one death reported.

The total of Mississippi’s cases since March 11 now stands at 2,642, with 93 deaths. Five new outbreaks have been identified in long-term care facilities.

More details of COVID-19 in the state, along with preventive steps to take against coronavirus, are online at http://HealthyMS.com/covid-19

The Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline is the best way to get your questions about COVID-19 answered. Call any time: 877-978-6453.

Long-term care (LTC) facilities like nursing homes are considered high risk locations because their residents are older or in poor health. Even one case of COVID-19 in these facilities among residents or employees is considered an outbreak. We investigate residents, staff and close contacts of infected individuals for possible exposure. The number of LTC facilities with outbreaks are shown for each county in the table below.

County	Cases	Deaths	LTCs with Outbreaks
Adams	49	1	2
Alcorn	7
Amite	11	1	1
Attala	18
Benton	5
Bolivar	65	3	2
Calhoun	14		1
Carroll	7
Chickasaw	22	2	1
Choctaw	10	1
Claiborne	5
Clarke	13	1	2
Clay	17
Coahoma	38	1
Copiah	28
Covington	12
Desoto	163	2	1
Forrest	86	2	2
Franklin	10
George	7
Greene	2
Grenada	10
Hancock	38	5	2
Harrison	107	5	2
Hinds	234	2	3
Holmes	42	3
Humphreys	9	1
Itawamba	9
Jackson	139	5	1
Jasper	12
Jefferson	4		1
Jefferson Davis	5
Jones	30		2
Kemper	14
Lafayette	29	1
Lamar	31	1
Lauderdale	133	8	4
Lawrence	6
Leake	27
Lee	42	3
Leflore	44	4	1
Lincoln	41	3	2
Lowndes	22
Madison	99	2	2
Marion	17		1
Marshall	30	2
Monroe	31	2	2
Montgomery	14	1
Neshoba	26
Newton	12		1
Noxubee	6
Oktibbeha	36	1	2
Panola	22	2
Pearl River	82	6	2
Perry	16	1
Pike	47	1	1
Pontotoc	14	1
Prentiss	12		2
Quitman	12
Rankin	94	2
Scott	52		1
Sharkey	3
Simpson	7
Smith	23	1	1
Stone	9
Sunflower	35	1
Tallahatchie	3
Tate	23
Tippah	43	6	1
Tishomingo	2
Tunica	19	1	1
Union	7	1	1
Walthall	16
Warren	11		1
Washington	49	2	2
Wayne	8
Webster	14	1
Wilkinson	42	3	1
Winston	18
Yalobusha	13
Yazoo	58	1
Total	2,642	93	52