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New cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mississippi continued to climb Sunday as the number of hospitalizations of confirmed cases dropped slightly.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional 173 new cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours bringing the total cases to 11,296.

The number of hospitalized patients in the state with confirmed cases of COVID-19 stood a 413 – down from 428 hospitalizations reported on Saturday. The number of hospitalizations of patients with the virus hasn’t dropped below 400 since April 25 when 399 patients were hospitalized. The number of hospitalizations reached 454 on April 30 and has fluctuated between 450 and 400 patients since.

MSDH officials said 158 patients in the state are in ICU with confirmed cases of COVID-19, down from 170 patients reported on Saturday.

The state reports that more than 56% of the cases are presumed to have recovered. As of May 15, 108,476 Mississippi residents have been tested by the state and by private labs MSDH reports.

The state announced Sunday morning 11 new deaths were attributed to the virus bringing the total death toll to 521.

The state reported that 251 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or approximately 48 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	172	15	39	8
Alcorn	12	1	0	0
Amite	46	0	6	0
Attala	249	7	64	7
Benton	13	0	1	0
Bolivar	129	10	16	4
Calhoun	58	4	23	4
Carroll	110	7	45	6
Chickasaw	115	12	32	8
Choctaw	22	2	0	0
Claiborne	49	0	1	0
Clarke	101	12	14	5
Clay	79	3	0	0
Coahoma	76	3	0	0
Copiah	201	2	0	0
Covington	105	0	1	0
Desoto	386	5	12	1
Forrest	431	27	69	15
Franklin	21	1	1	0
George	17	1	0	0
Greene	7	1	0	0
Grenada	59	2	14	2
Hancock	80	10	6	3
Harrison	215	6	1	1
Hinds	773	22	73	13
Holmes	293	20	51	9
Humphreys	45	5	12	3
Itawamba	78	7	33	6
Jackson	286	13	39	4
Jasper	111	3	1	0
Jefferson	37	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	68	2	3	1
Jones	337	9	40	4
Kemper	100	8	24	4
Lafayette	109	3	37	0
Lamar	175	4	3	2
Lauderdale	585	46	156	28
Lawrence	78	0	1	0
Leake	353	6	4	0
Lee	93	4	7	0
Leflore	200	22	51	11
Lincoln	217	18	68	14
Lowndes	122	5	9	3
Madison	533	17	84	11
Marion	89	8	14	2
Marshall	66	3	2	0
Monroe	222	23	92	20
Montgomery	72	1	0	0
Neshoba	405	23	48	13
Newton	187	2	2	0
Noxubee	134	3	14	3
Oktibbeha	104	6	28	4
Panola	50	2	0	0
Pearl River	195	26	42	8
Perry	36	2	0	0
Pike	176	11	14	6
Pontotoc	25	2	3	0
Prentiss	36	3	22	3
Quitman	21	0	0	0
Rankin	285	6	5	0
Scott	524	7	10	1
Sharkey	6	0	0	0
Simpson	76	0	4	0
Smith	112	7	28	4
Stone	24	0	0	0
Sunflower	68	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	19	1	0	0
Tate	57	0	2	0
Tippah	69	11	0	0
Tishomingo	14	0	1	0
Tunica	44	2	12	2
Union	60	4	18	3
Walthall	46	0	0	0
Warren	133	4	33	2
Washington	115	4	5	1
Wayne	39	0	3	0
Webster	23	1	0	0
Wilkinson	78	9	5	2
Winston	81	0	0	0
Yalobusha	71	0	24	0
Yazoo	188	2	7	0
Total	11,296	521	1,479	251

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

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