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Lauderdale County had 37 new COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths in the latest count posted Friday by the Mississippi Department of Health.

Across the state, 853 new cases and 15 deaths were reported Friday. Five of the COVID-19 related deaths occurred between Aug. 26 and Sept. 4 and were identified from death certificate reports.

Since the Department of Health began tracking COVID-19 statistics in March, there have been 89,175 confirmed cases and 2,670 deaths. The state presumes 74,098 people have recovered from the virus.

In Lauderdale County, there have been 1,931 COVID-19 total cases and 119 related deaths.

Clarke County had six new cases Friday for a total of 502; Kemper County two new cases for a total of 280; Neshoba County 13 new cases for a total of 1,493; and Newton County 13 new cases for a total of 723.

There are 146 active outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term-care facilities, according to the Department of Health. None of the new outbreaks occurred in Lauderdale County.

As of Tuesday, 525 patients with confirmed COVID-19 infections were hospitalized, 185 of them in ICU units.

County Case count

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	853	32	47	12
Alcorn	708	9	18	2
Amite	289	10	14	2
Attala	613	25	90	20
Benton	206	1	2	0
Bolivar	1701	58	166	21
Calhoun	499	12	25	4
Carroll	302	12	45	9
Chickasaw	618	24	43	13
Choctaw	168	5	2	0
Claiborne	446	16	43	9
Clarke	502	36	57	15
Clay	525	16	7	1
Coahoma	1067	23	78	2
Copiah	1136	32	47	4
Covington	769	18	17	4
De Soto	5091	54	62	12
Forrest	2269	68	169	40
Franklin	181	3	3	1
George	720	13	26	6
Greene	322	16	36	6
Grenada	999	32	103	18
Hancock	538	20	9	4
Harrison	3586	68	236	29
Hinds	6781	149	381	62
Holmes	1073	56	100	20
Humphreys	358	15	21	6
Issaquena	98	3	0	0
Itawamba	669	18	62	11
Jackson	3270	65	75	7
Jasper	519	13	1	0
Jefferson	231	9	12	3
Jefferson Davis	312	10	3	1
Jones	2276	76	178	36
Kemper	280	14	39	9
Lafayette	1896	39	122	28
Lamar	1533	33	25	11
Lauderdale	1931	119	250	69
Lawrence	420	12	26	2
Leake	922	33	11	0
Lee	2432	65	149	30
Leflore	1310	76	187	45
Lincoln	1017	52	142	32
Lowndes	1351	56	96	32
Madison	3115	84	236	45
Marion	819	28	71	8
Marshall	1050	14	31	6
Monroe	1134	64	155	50
Montgomery	435	19	46	9
Neshoba	1493	102	111	37
Newton	723	20	34	7
Noxubee	535	14	19	4
Oktibbeha	1658	46	191	30
Panola	1358	26	13	2
Pearl River	818	49	71	20
Perry	370	14	9	1
Pike	1183	47	80	21
Pontotoc	1150	15	6	1
Prentiss	723	15	48	3
Quitman	354	5	0	0
Rankin	3053	71	152	18
Scott	1134	23	17	3
Sharkey	257	11	43	8
Simpson	993	40*	104	18
Smith	502	13	54	8
Stone	341	11	50	7
Sunflower	1337	42	63	11
Tallahatchie	699	14	26	2
Tate	909	35	32	12
Tippah	600	16	3	0
Tishomingo	617	33	96	24
Tunica	463	13	12	2
Union	943	23	46	11
Walthall	579	24	67	13
Warren	1348	47	113	22
Washington	2104	70	106	23
Wayne	863	21	59	10
Webster	320	13	52	11
Wilkinson	288	17	20	5
Winston	712	19	40	11
Yalobusha	400	13	35	7
Yazoo	1008	23	46	6
Total	89,175	2,670	5,582	1,114

* Note: One death from Simpson County was inadvertently counted twice. This error has been corrected in the data above.

Case Classifications

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

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	83,918	5,257	89,175
Deaths	2,489	181	2,670

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