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NATCHEZ — The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 735 new COVID-19 cases and 14 new deaths on Saturday.

Adams County has had a total of 780 cases and 31 deaths since the outbreak. As of Friday, Merit Health Natchez is housing 10 COVID-19 patients with three of them in ICU. Statewide, 674 confirmed positive COVID-19 patients are hospitalized and 145 suspected positive patients. MSDH reports 215 of Mississippi’s COVID-19 patients are in ICU ant 111 are on ventilators.

As of Saturday, 157 long term care facilities in the state have active COVID-19 outbreaks were an outbreak is defined as one or more positive cases among residents or staff.

Mississippi’s total of confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases since March 11 now stands at 82,029 with 2,247 deaths.

Guidelines from MSDH state social distancing is critical to stop the spread of COVID-19 and wearing a mask or face covering can sharply reduce the risk of passing COVID-19 on to others.

More details of COVID-19 in the state, along with preventive steps to take against coronavirus and statewide testing locations, 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 877-978-6453 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	780	31	46	12
Alcorn	616	6	17	1
Amite	272	7	14	2
Attala	581	25	90	20
Benton	193	1	2	0
Bolivar	1462	48	77	12
Calhoun	468	10	23	4
Carroll	289	12	45	9
Chickasaw	581	20	36	11
Choctaw	154	4	0	0
Claiborne	435	16	43	9
Clarke	437	30 *	31	9
Clay	469	14	2	1
Coahoma	969	17	77	2
Copiah	1056	31	30	4
Covington	716	17	9	4
De Soto	4548	43	49	9
Forrest	2119	61	121	35
Franklin	175	3	3	1
George	679	12	5	2
Greene	290	14	35	6
Grenada	934	32	88	17
Hancock	487	18	8	4
Harrison	3268	53	149	18
Hinds	6473	138	360	59
Holmes	1039	54	98	20
Humphreys	335	14	20	6
Issaquena	97	3	0	0
Itawamba	545	14	51	9
Jackson	2946	59	74	7
Jasper	479	13	1	0
Jefferson	217	9	8	2
Jefferson Davis	302	8	3	1
Jones	2146	72	174	35
Kemper	269	15	38	9
Lafayette	1377	34	121	24
Lamar	1432	29	10	5
Lauderdale	1737	106	213	58
Lawrence	402	10	18	1
Leake	878	31	4	0
Lee	2139	54	144	27
Leflore	1229	75	185	45
Lincoln	962	51	129	30
Lowndes	1272	53	92	28
Madison	2939	83	223	41
Marion	775	26	48	6
Marshall	934	12	27	5
Monroe	1025	57	148	44
Montgomery	406	16	25	7
Neshoba	1418	99	109	37
Newton	660	14	14	3
Noxubee	518	14	17	4
Oktibbeha	1404	46	185	29
Panola	1288	23	13	2
Pearl River	743	48	66	19
Perry	290	9	0	0
Pike	1124	44	74	19
Pontotoc	1049	11	6	1
Prentiss	612	12	47	3
Quitman	319	3	0	0
Rankin	2817	62	131	17
Scott	1091	22	15	3
Sharkey	249	8	42	7
Simpson	936	39	100	20
Smith	463	13	54	8
Stone	310	10	27	3
Sunflower	1252	36	50	8
Tallahatchie	623	13	9	2
Tate	853	32	32	12
Tippah	538	15	2	0
Tishomingo	547	28	93	20
Tunica	448	11	12	2
Union	876	21	40	11
Walthall	563	24	67	13
Warren	1303	46	107	22
Washington	1982	60	82	20
Wayne	846	21 *	58	10
Webster	298	13	52	11
Wilkinson	276	17	8	4
Winston	691	19	40	11
Yalobusha	359	12	35	7
Yazoo	950	21	29	4
Total	82,029	2,427	4,830	993

* Note: A death previously reported in Wayne County has been corrected to Clarke County.