Mississippi reports 763 new COVID-19 cases, 19 additional deaths

Published 12:45 pm Friday, March 12, 2021

Mississippi reported 763 new cases of the coronavirus and 19 additional COVID-19 related deaths on Friday, bringing the state’s totals to 299,887 cases and 6,883 deaths.

Thursday was the one-year anniversary of the day when the Mississippi State Department of Health reported the first case of COVID-19 in the state. The individual was a Forrest County man who had recently traveled to Florida, MSDH said in a news release at the time.

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Since then, Mississippi has seen three waves of the coronavirus. At the peak of the most recent wave, over 3,500 new cases occurred in Mississippi on one day, January 8, according to state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers.

Daily case counts have significantly decreased since January.

Lauderdale County reported 11 new cases of the coronavirus and no additional COVID-19 related deaths on Friday, bringing the county’s totals to 6,926 cases and 229 deaths.

COVID-19 case and death numbers for other local counties are listed below.

Clarke County: four new cases; 1,720 total cases since March 2020. No additional deaths; 74 total deaths since March 2020.

Newton County: four new cases; 2,352 total cases. No additional deaths; 54 total deaths since March 2020.

Kemper County: four new cases; 924 total cases. No additional deaths; 24 total deaths since March 2020.

Neshoba County: 14 new cases; 3,889 total cases. No additional deaths; 172 total deaths since March 2020.

COVID-19 vaccinations in Mississippi

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported on Thursday that 534,573 people had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the state. Of these people, 302,524 individuals had been fully vaccinated, which means that they had either received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or they had received one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The MSDH website has a Vaccination Provider Map that shows the names of the clinics and pharmacies in Meridian and across the state that are administering COVID-19 vaccine. The map is updated each week, as a provider may not necessarily offer COVID-19 vaccine every week. You can visit https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,420,976.html#providerMap to view the map.

COVID-19 data for Mississippi counties

County Total Cases Total Deaths
Adams 2370 79
Alcorn 2938 63
Amite 1137 37
Attala 2109 72
Benton 945 24
Bolivar 4654 125
Calhoun 1600 29
Carroll 1199 25
Chickasaw 2022 54
Choctaw 717 17
Claiborne 995 30
Clarke 1720 74
Clay 1799 53
Coahoma 2856 70
Copiah 2816 59
Covington 2517 80
De Soto 19991 238
Forrest 7353 140
Franklin 776 21
George 2335 45
Greene 1287 33
Grenada 2499 79
Hancock 3577 78
Harrison 17043 292
Hinds 19161 397
Holmes 1836 70
Humphreys 936 29
Issaquena 167 6
Itawamba 2920 76
Jackson 12825 235
Jasper 2168 47
Jefferson 634 27
Jefferson Davis 1033 31
Jones 8127 152
Kemper 924 24
Lafayette 5808 114
Lamar 5972 84
Lauderdale 6926 229
Lawrence 1225 21
Leake 2561 72
Lee 9753 165
Leflore 3417 123
Lincoln 3701 104
Lowndes 6153 141
Madison 9640 206
Marion 2605 78
Marshall 4100 96
Monroe 4012 130
Montgomery 1238 40
Neshoba 3889 172
Newton 2352 54
Noxubee 1237 31
Oktibbeha 4463 97
Panola 4383 99
Pearl River 4252 132
Perry 1238 37
Pike 3059 100
Pontotoc 4125 71
Prentiss 2726 58
Quitman 781 15
Rankin 12993 267
Scott 2986 71
Sharkey 492 17
Simpson 2799 82
Smith 1551 34
Stone 1742 30
Sunflower 3227 87
Tallahatchie 1726 39
Tate 3137 77
Tippah 2816 66
Tishomingo 2138 66
Tunica 1010 24
Union 3985 74
Walthall 1261 42
Warren 4179 115
Washington 5241 130
Wayne 2576 41
Webster 1124 32
Wilkinson 628 27
Winston 2232 79
Yalobusha 1481 36
Yazoo 2961 67
Total 299,887 6,883