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The Mississippi State Department of Health on Thursday reported 238 new COVID-19 cases and 12 new COVID-19 deaths.

Adams County now has 202 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16 deaths due to COVID-19, with 45 of Adams County’s COVID-19 cases and eight deaths from long term care facilities. Forty of Adams County’s long term-care facility cases and eight of the deaths were reported in the Adams County Nursing Home.

The only other Adams County long-term care facility to report cases is Glenburney Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, which has four COVID-19 cases in employees, five in patients and no deaths.

As of Sunday, May 31, Adams County Emergency Agency reported that Adams County had 20 active cases countywide, 179 total expired cases countywide, 15 total deaths countywide and 164 total recovered cases countywide.

Statewide 126 long-term care facilities have active outbreaks.

The state now has 16,560 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 794 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.

Lee also reported two COVID-19 deaths on Thursday. One of those was an 87-year-old nursing home resident in Adams County and the other a 43-year-old male from Fayette, who was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at Merit Health Natchez.

“This pandemic is still alive, and we still have infected cases in our city and surrounding towns,” Lee said. “Please, please, everyone don’t get relaxed. Protect yourself and your families.”

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

The state of Louisiana now has 41,562 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,772 COVID-19 deaths reported.

Totals of all reported cases since March 11.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths
Adams	203	16
Alcorn	19	1
Amite	66	1
Attala	311	18
Benton	14	0
Bolivar	169	11
Calhoun	67	4
Carroll	119	11
Chickasaw	140	14
Choctaw	50	2
Claiborne	115	5
Clarke	156	19
Clay	125	4
Coahoma	131	4
Copiah	329	4
Covington	179	2
Desoto	575	10
Forrest	595	39
Franklin	29	2
George	29	2
Greene	33	1
Grenada	107	4
Hancock	90	12
Harrison	269	7
Hinds	1074	26
Holmes	443	30
Humphreys	63	7
Issaquena	0	0
Itawamba	89	7
Jackson	314	15
Jasper	167	4
Jefferson	42	1
Jefferson Davis	82	3
Jones	701	33
Kemper	155	11
Lafayette	154	4
Lamar	250	5
Lauderdale	759	68
Lawrence	107	1
Leake	452	12
Lee	194	8
Leflore	277	36
Lincoln	280	31
Lowndes	247	9
Madison	767	28
Marion	116	9
Marshall	87	3
Monroe	269	25
Montgomery	84	1
Neshoba	728	44
Newton	288	4
Noxubee	193	6
Oktibbeha	273	14
Panola	84	3
Pearl River	212	31
Perry	51	3
Pike	204	11
Pontotoc	47	3
Prentiss	53	3
Quitman	32	0
Rankin	456	9
Scott	663	12
Sharkey	7	0
Simpson	104	0
Smith	155	11
Stone	32	0
Sunflower	92	3
Tallahatchie	30	1
Tate	91	1
Tippah	76	11
Tishomingo	36	0
Tunica	58	3
Union	89	7
Walthall	64	0
Warren	196	10
Washington	198	7
Wayne	262	3
Webster	84	4
Wilkinson	85	9
Winston	124	1
Yalobusha	104	6
Yazoo	296	4
Total	16,560	794