Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Mississippi State Department of Health continue to closely monitor the outbreak of respiratory illnesses caused by the novel (new) coronavirus COVID-19, and are working to limit the spread of cases nationally and in Mississippi.

Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline (7 days a week, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.): 877-978-6453

General Information

• COVID-19 and You: Video Q & A with State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs
• COVID-19 overview, questions and answers
• Guidance, prevention and testing
• Handouts: Basic disease prevention, handwashing and more
• ASL, Spanish and Vietnamese materials

Home isolation is mandatory if you have tested positive for COVID-19 by order of the State Health Officer. (If you are awaiting results of routine testing not related to exposure, you may return to work and follow the safety guidance of your employer.) If you have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19, quarantine is also important to protect others. Find out more »

COVID-19 in Mississippi

New Cases and Deaths as of October 6

County COVID-19 Data

Race and Ethnicity

• Total COVID-19 cases and deaths by county, race and ethnicity PDF
  Current and past data tables, updated daily

Data Snapshots for Individual Counties

• Weekly COVID-19 snapshots for each Mississippi county

High Cases and Incidence

• Mississippi counties ranked by weekly cases and incidence

Cumulative Cases and Deaths by County

Totals of all reported COVID-19 cases for 2020, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

The numbers in this table are provisional. County case numbers and deaths may change as investigation finds new or additional information. The data provided below is the most current available.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	978	40	48	13
Alcorn	869	11	18	2
Amite	363	10	15	2
Attala	696	25	90	20
Benton	256	4	4	0
Bolivar	1924	74	217	29
Calhoun	555	12	25	4
Carroll	336	12	45	9
Chickasaw	741	24	44	13
Choctaw	193	6	1	0
Claiborne	500	16	43	9
Clarke	632	48	90	25
Clay	624	20	19	3
Coahoma	1198	32	86	6
Copiah	1256	34	70	5
Covington	853	25	34	10
De Soto	5994	71	73	14
Forrest	2714	75	175	41
Franklin	206	3	4	1
George	846	14	34	6
Greene	417	17	38	6
Grenada	1133	36	109	20
Hancock	648	25	14	4
Harrison	4204	78	255	32
Hinds	7346	166	447	70
Holmes	1113	60	101	20
Humphreys	382	15	21	6
Issaquena	106	3	0	0
Itawamba	943	24	83	17
Jackson	3882	72	82	7
Jasper	608	16	1	0
Jefferson	247	10	12	3
Jefferson Davis	363	11	3	1
Jones	2626	81	183	37
Kemper	296	15	39	9
Lafayette	2303	41	123	28
Lamar	1927	37	32	11
Lauderdale	2146	127	261	74
Lawrence	453	14	26	2
Leake	992	39	35	5
Lee	3080	74	172	33
Leflore	1484	82	191	45
Lincoln	1178	53	142	32
Lowndes	1671	58	98	33
Madison	3451	90	238	45
Marion	894	41	91	14
Marshall	1138	22	31	6
Monroe	1308	70	169	51
Montgomery	498	21	50	9
Neshoba	1661	108	125	38
Newton	802	26	39	9
Noxubee	576	16	20	4
Oktibbeha	1873	54	189	31
Panola	1565	32	15	3
Pearl River	973	54	88	22
Perry	450	21	20	7
Pike	1281	55	97	27
Pontotoc	1356	18	16	1
Prentiss	919	19	48	3
Quitman	402	5	0	0
Rankin	3507	82	173	23
Scott	1190	28	21	3
Sharkey	268	14	43	8
Simpson	1114	48	108	19
Smith	558	15	54	8
Stone	405	13	49	8
Sunflower	1520	48	78	13
Tallahatchie	793	24	29	7
Tate	1062	38	47	13
Tippah	755	18	39	0
Tishomingo	731	39	96	26
Tunica	511	16	15	2
Union	1065	24	46	11
Walthall	612	26	67	13
Warren	1443	52	119	25
Washington	2351	86	151	32
Wayne	942	21	59	10
Webster	355	13	52	11
Wilkinson	313	18	20	5
Winston	771	19	40	11
Yalobusha	458	14	35	7
Yazoo	1088	33	71	12
Total	102,241	3,051	6,251	1,244

Case Classifications

Mississippi investigates and reports both probable and confirmed cases and deaths according to the CSTE case definition.

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	93,422	8,819	102,241
Deaths	2,794	257	3,051

Confirmed cases and deaths are generally determined by positive PCR tests, which detect the presence of ongoing coronavirus infection.

Probable cases are those who test positive by other testing methods such as antibody or antigen, and have recent symptoms consistent with COVID-19, indicating a recent infection.

Probable deaths are those individuals with a designation of COVID-19 as a cause of death on the death certificate, but where no confirmatory testing was performed.

Deaths from COVID-19 and Other Causes

This table of death counts compares COVID-19 deaths in Mississippi by week with deaths from other major causes, including contributing and underlying causes.

• Mississippi Provisional Death Counts by Week
  Updated weekly

K-12 School Report

Mississippi K-12 schools make weekly reports of cases among students, teachers and staff, number of outbreaks, and teachers and students under quarantine as a result of COVID-19 exposure. An outbreak in a school setting is defined as 3 or more individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the same group within a 14-day period.

Note: These cases have been directly reported to MSDH by each school, and may not yet have appeared in our state and county totals of cases reported by laboratories.

• K-12 reports of COVID-19 school cases, outbreaks and exposure
  Updated weekly

Long-Term Care Facility Cases and Outbreaks

Long-term care (LTC) facilities like nursing homes are considered high risk locations because their residents are older or in poor health. A single confirmed COVID-19 infection in an LTC facility resident, or more than one infection in employees or staff in a 14-day period constitutes an outbreak. Residential care facilities also represent group living facilities where COVID-19 can be easily spread. We investigate residents, staff and close contacts of infected individuals for possible exposure.

These outbreak figures are reported directly to MSDH by the facility. Many of the cases and deaths reported by facilities may not yet be included in our totals of lab-reported cases.

• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in long-term care facilities PDF
  Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living homes, and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disability (ICF-IID)

• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in residential care facilities PDF
  Residential care facilities include psychiatric or chemical dependency residential treatment centers and long-term acute care facilities.

Ongoing Outbreaks in Nursing Homes

Because nursing homes report COVID-19 data directly to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), we have replaced our usual long-term care facility report with the most recent CMS nursing home data, avoiding duplicate reporting requirements for these facilities.

Data such as illness in residents and staff, deaths in residents, as well as a number of other data elements are now publicly available on the CMS website. MSDH is providing the following links to view this data, which is reported directly by the Nursing Homes and is updated daily.

Note: Cases and deaths listed on the CMS website may not have appeared yet in our county totals, which are based on reports from testing laboratories.

• Search for nursing home COVID-19 data
• About the CMS COVID-19 dataset
• CMS state and national COVID-19 nursing home data

Mississippi COVID-19 Data Charts and Map

All data reports below are updated as they become available.

Hospitalizations and Bed Availability

• Interactive chart of hospitalizations by date
• Interactive chart of local and state hospital bed availability

Daily Statewide Data Charts

Our state case map and other data charts are also available in interactive form.

• View interactive map
• View interactive epidemiological trend and syndromic surveillance

The charts below are based on available data at the time of publication. Charts do not include cases where insufficient details of the case are known.

Note: Values up to two weeks in the past on the chart of Cases by Date above can change as we update it with new information from disease investigation.

Weekly Statewide Data Summaries

Weekly Pediatric MIS-C Cases and Deaths

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19 that causes inflammation in many body parts, including the heart and other vital organs.

Weekly High Case and High Incidence Counties

Tracking counties with recent high numbers of COVID-19 cases, adjusted for population, provides insight on where local outbreaks are most serious, and where protective measures should be increased. For more accurate reporting, these weekly charts include sample collection dates only up to seven days in the past to allow for case investigation and delays in lab test reports.

Cases counts in these charts is based on the date of illness onset. If the date of illness is not known, the date the test sample was taken, or the date of test result reporting is used instead. Counts are adjusted as cases are investigated.

Counties are ranked by highest weekly case counts, and by weekly incidence (cases proportional to population). A separate table ranking all counties is also available. All tables updated weekly.

• Full tables of counties ranked by weekly incidence and cases PDF

Syndromic Surveillance

Emergency department visits by those with symptoms characteristic of COVID-19, influenza and pneumonia, updated weekly.

Estimated Recoveries

Presumed COVID-19 cases recovered, estimated weekly (does not include cases still under investigation).

U.S. and World Cases

• COVID-19 cases in the United States (CDC)
• U.S. COVID-19 Tracker (CDC)
• COVID-19 Global Case Map (Johns Hopkins University)

COVID-19 Testing

Statewide Combined Testing as of October 3

This update includes tests made as early as June 30, 2020. As laboratories improve their reporting, they are providing more older data to MSDH.

COVID-19 testing providers around the state include commercial laboratories as well as hospital labs. Combined with testing done by the MSDH Public Health Laboratory, the figures provide a complete picture of all Mississippi testing. Updated weekly.

PCR testing detects current, active COVID-19 infection in an individual.

Antibody (serology) testing identifies individuals with past COVID-19 infection based on antibodies they develop one to three weeks after infection.

Antigen testing is another way to identify current COVID-19 infection.

	Total tests	PCR	Antibody	Antigen
MSDH Public Health Laboratory	111,144	109,904	1,240	0
Other testing providers	792,861	687,064	38,808	66,989
Total tests for COVID-19 statewide	904,005	796,968	40,048	66,989

MSDH Individuals Tested as of October 6

MSDH Public Health Laboratory (MPHL) testing totals as of 3 p.m. These totals are for tests performed at the MPHL only.

• Total individuals tested by the MPHL: 81,872
• Total positive individuals from MPHL tests: 8,894

Getting Tested for COVID-19

The MSDH Public Health Laboratory, its partners, and private providers are testing statewide for COVID-19.

Anyone with symptoms of fever, severe cough or severe chest pains – especially those who are older or in poor health – should make arrangements for testing with their doctor or one of the many healthcare providers now performing testing. Healthcare providers can assess your health history and symptoms, and perform testing for COVID-19 as needed. MSDH is also helping conduct free drive-up testing sites in many parts of the state. Always call ahead to the testing provider for instructions on safely being examined before you visit for your test.

• Find a COVID-19 testing provider near you

Prevention and Guidance for Individuals and the Community

• Preventive steps to take, recommendations, guidance and general information on COVID-19