Mississippi on Wednesday reports more COVID-19 cases, deaths

Published 4:40 pm Wednesday, June 3, 2020

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The Mississippi State Department of Health on Wednesday reported 302 new COVID-19 cases and 15 new COVID-19 deaths.

Adams County now has 202 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16 deaths due to COVID-19, with 43 of Adams County’s COVID-19 cases and eight deaths from long term care facilities.

Statewide 126 long-term care facilities have active outbreaks.

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The state now has 16,020 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 767 deaths.

On Tuesday, Adams County Coroner James Lee said he had an 82-year-female from a local nursing die of COVID -19 after being transported to Merit Health Natchez on Tuesday morning. She was a resident of Adams County, so Adams County now has 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Also on Tuesday, May 29th to June 2, 2020 The Concordia Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness reported it had received new COVID-19 confirmed cases for Concordia Parish, bringing the parish’s total to 95 confirmed COVID-19 cases and six deaths.

The state of Louisiana now has 41,133 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,759 COVID-19 deaths reported.

Below is a look at Mississippi’s county-by-county numbers as of Wednesday.

Cases and Deaths by County

Totals of all reported cases since March 11, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

County Total Cases Total Deaths Total LTC Facility Cases Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams 202 16 44 9
Alcorn 19 1 0 0
Amite 65 1 12 1
Attala 307 18 82 15
Benton 14 0 1 0
Bolivar 166 11 17 4
Calhoun 67 4 23 4
Carroll 116 11 45 9
Chickasaw 140 14 34 9
Choctaw 48 2 0 0
Claiborne 114 5 33 4
Clarke 155 19 20 8
Clay 118 4 0 0
Coahoma 128 4 0 0
Copiah 325 4 0 0
Covington 177 2 1 0
Desoto 559 8 19 3
Forrest 592 39 88 28
Franklin 29 2 3 1
George 28 1 0 0
Greene 33 1 16 0
Grenada 100 3 14 2
Hancock 90 12 8 3
Harrison 265 7 3 2
Hinds 1066 26 83 13
Holmes 441 30 84 15
Humphreys 60 7 16 5
Itawamba 90 7 34 6
Jackson 309 14 40 5
Jasper 166 4 0 0
Jefferson 42 1 0 0
Jefferson Davis 81 3 4 1
Jones 686 32 101 19
Kemper 149 11 32 7
Lafayette 150 4 39 1
Lamar 248 5 4 2
Lauderdale 760 68 202 45
Lawrence 108 1 1 0
Leake 454 12 2 0
Lee 185 7 22 1
Leflore 273 36 92 23
Lincoln 278 29 86 22
Lowndes 241 9 19 5
Madison 757 27 101 15
Marion 116 9 15 2
Marshall 85 3 2 0
Monroe 267 25 92 22
Montgomery 86 1 0 0
Neshoba 722 44 70 23
Newton 283 4 4 0
Noxubee 193 6 15 3
Oktibbeha 267 14 74 11
Panola 85 3 0 0
Pearl River 212 31 46 11
Perry 51 3 0 0
Pike 205 11 15 6
Pontotoc 45 3 3 1
Prentiss 53 3 22 3
Quitman 31 0 0 0
Rankin 453 8 8 0
Scott 662 12 13 2
Sharkey 7 0 0 0
Simpson 104 0 5 0
Smith 153 11 43 7
Stone 32 0 0 0
Sunflower 93 3 0 0
Tallahatchie 30 1 0 0
Tate 88 1 2 0
Tippah 76 11 0 0
Tishomingo 35 0 1 0
Tunica 56 3 12 2
Union 86 7 20 6
Walthall 63 0 0 0
Warren 191 10 37 7
Washington 194 7 8 1
Wayne 235 3 1 0
Webster 67 3 18 2
Wilkinson 85 9 5 2
Winston 122 1 0 0
Yalobusha 97 6 26 6
Yazoo 291 4 11 2
Total 16,322 782 1,993 406