Mississippi COVID-19 map posted May 30, 2020.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 439 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, a record number of cases reported in a single day for the second consecutive day.

On the heels of Friday’s 418 cases reported, Mississippi now has a total of 15,229 cases reported since the state began tracking COVID-19 on March 11.

Lauderdale County had five of those new cases for a total of 735, still the second highest county total in the state behind only Hinds’ 999.

The health department reported 13 new deaths, two of them in Lauderdale County. So far 723 people have died from COVID-19 in Mississippi, 61 of them in Lauderdale County, the most of any county in Mississippi. One of the new state deaths occurred on May 11 and was identified from death certificate reports.

Twenty of the new cases reported on Saturday were from long-term care facilities. 

There are now 137 active outbreaks at those facilities.

Neshoba County, another hot spot, reported 24 new cases on Saturday for a total of 630. Thirty-eight people have died of COVID-19 in Neshoba County.

The back-to-back days of record increases occur just before Mississippi transitions to Gov. Tate Reeves’ Safe Return Order, which allows all businesses to open with certain restrictions.

Reeves extended an executive order Friday that applies to Lauderdale, Neshoba, Jasper, Holmes and Wayne counties.

According to the order, employees of all businesses should be screened daily and must wear a mask if they cannot maintain 6 feet of distance from others.

In retail businesses, all customers must wear a mask, as well as employees who come in direct contact with customers, the order states.

Cases and Deaths by County

Totals of all reported cases since March 11, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	196	15	43	8
Alcorn	17	1	0	0
Amite	60	1	12	1
Attala	292	16	80	14
Benton	15	0	1	0
Bolivar	160	11	17	4
Calhoun	64	4	23	4
Carroll	117	11	46	9
Chickasaw	133	12	34	8
Choctaw	43	2	0	0
Claiborne	111	2	8	1
Clarke	143	18	17	7
Clay	112	4	0	0
Coahoma	121	4	0	0
Copiah	310	4	0	0
Covington	165	2	1	0
Desoto	533	7	19	2
Forrest	553	38	87	27
Franklin	28	2	2	1
George	25	1	0	0
Greene	12	1	0	0
Grenada	89	3	14	2
Hancock	90	11	9	3
Harrison	257	7	3	2
Hinds	999	25	81	13
Holmes	397	28	80	14
Humphreys	60	7	16	5
Itawamba	87	7	34	6
Jackson	305	13	40	4
Jasper	157	4	1	0
Jefferson	42	1	0	0
Jefferson Davis	77	2	4	1
Jones	598	25	82	13
Kemper	144	11	32	7
Lafayette	131	4	38	1
Lamar	235	5	5	2
Lauderdale	735	61	194	40
Lawrence	102	1	1	0
Leake	421	12	1	0
Lee	149	6	20	1
Leflore	258	31	84	18
Lincoln	256	28	86	21
Lowndes	211	9	19	5
Madison	720	23	101	12
Marion	115	9	14	2
Marshall	83	3	2	0
Monroe	255	25	92	22
Montgomery	83	1	0	0
Neshoba	630	38	69	21
Newton	271	4	5	0
Noxubee	185	6	14	3
Oktibbeha	235	12	45	8
Panola	70	3	0	0
Pearl River	209	31	45	11
Perry	50	3	0	0
Pike	202	11	15	6
Pontotoc	32	3	3	1
Prentiss	52	3	22	3
Quitman	26	0	0	0
Rankin	421	7	7	0
Scott	650	12	13	2
Sharkey	7	0	0	0
Simpson	101	0	5	0
Smith	150	11	30	7
Stone	30	0	0	0
Sunflower	81	3	0	0
Tallahatchie	27	1	0	0
Tate	89	1	2	0
Tippah	73	11	0	0
Tishomingo	32	0	1	0
Tunica	54	3	12	2
Union	83	5	20	4
Walthall	55	0	0	0
Warren	171	9	37	7
Washington	168	7	8	1
Wayne	177	1	2	0
Webster	69	1	18	0
Wilkinson	88	9	5	2
Winston	112	1	0	0
Yalobusha	90	5	27	5
Yazoo	273	4	11	2
Total	15,229	723	1,859	365

Mississippi Department of Health