Mississippi is making “great progress” in the fight against COVID-19, the state health officer said in a tweet on Tuesday.

The number of clinic and emergency department visits for COVID-19-like illness in Mississippi has decreased substantially since the start of the year, according to a graph that State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs shared on Twitter. The number of new patients admitted to hospitals for COVID-19 has also decreased in the state since the beginning of the year.

Dobbs asked Mississippians to continue to wear masks in public and limit their social gatherings.

“Plan to limit Spring Break travel and keep it nuclear (within the household),” Dobbs said in the tweet.

Mississippi reported 734 new cases of the coronavirus and 37 new COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday, bringing the state’s totals to 288,714 cases and 6,501 deaths.

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

Lauderdale County: 21 new cases; 6,680 total cases. One additional death, which occurred between Nov. 11 and Feb. 10 and was identified from death certificate reports; 220 total deaths since March.

Clarke County: five new cases; 1,660 total cases. No additional deaths; 69 total deaths since March.

Newton County: 12 new cases; 2,190 total cases. No additional deaths; 51 total deaths since March.

Kemper County: three new cases; 884 total cases. No additional deaths; 22 total deaths since March.

Neshoba County: 11 new cases; 3,712 total cases. No additional deaths; 165 total deaths since March.

MSDH presumed that 264,456 people in Mississippi had recovered from COVID-19 as of Feb. 15. The department also reported that there are 112 ongoing outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term-care facilities.

COVID-19 data

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	2299	74	72	15
Alcorn	2887	60	130	20
Amite	1095	32	54	7
Attala	2055	69	174	36
Benton	921	24	45	10
Bolivar	4517	117	231	31
Calhoun	1548	26	35	4
Carroll	1163	23	49	9
Chickasaw	1996	50	58	15
Choctaw	693	15	1	0
Claiborne	973	29	45	9
Clarke	1660	69	123	30
Clay	1764	48	38	5
Coahoma	2708	65	129	11
Copiah	2720	57	81	11
Covington	2425	76	136	39
De Soto	19273	226	113	24
Forrest	6907	135	225	50
Franklin	748	19	39	4
George	2268	44	59	7
Greene	1239	32	52	6
Grenada	2431	75	155	32
Hancock	3334	72	68	14
Harrison	16162	264	482	65
Hinds	18501	378	805	128
Holmes	1801	69	104	20
Humphreys	904	26	34	8
Issaquena	167	6	0	0
Itawamba	2872	71	134	23
Jackson	12247	214	233	33
Jasper	2070	41	43	2
Jefferson	607	27	40	7
Jefferson Davis	985	31	8	1
Jones	7720	140	218	41
Kemper	884	22	44	9
Lafayette	5663	112	187	55
Lamar	5669	77	53	13
Lauderdale	6680	220	441	99
Lawrence	1176	20	27	2
Leake	2501	69	88	15
Lee	9592	158	222	41
Leflore	3320	117	237	52
Lincoln	3403	99	183	38
Lowndes	5947	137	256	62
Madison	9318	189	365	69
Marion	2469	77	158	24
Marshall	3935	92	64	15
Monroe	3952	124	190	55
Montgomery	1189	37	54	9
Neshoba	3712	165	202	58
Newton	2190	51	87	15
Noxubee	1213	29	35	6
Oktibbeha	4362	90	221	36
Panola	4216	90	102	13
Pearl River	3985	126	186	34
Perry	1163	33	21	7
Pike	2950	91	127	34
Pontotoc	4040	66	86	10
Prentiss	2665	58	99	15
Quitman	762	14	0	0
Rankin	12450	254	390	61
Scott	2891	66	115	17
Sharkey	488	17	43	8
Simpson	2632	78	158	20
Smith	1483	28	65	8
Stone	1691	28	84	14
Sunflower	3136	84	121	19
Tallahatchie	1681	39	50	7
Tate	2963	72	80	19
Tippah	2731	64	120	13
Tishomingo	2093	64	102	27
Tunica	968	23	18	2
Union	3886	72	131	23
Walthall	1227	39	69	13
Warren	4073	113	169	37
Washington	5116	127	190	39
Wayne	2480	40	69	11
Webster	1072	29	59	11
Wilkinson	618	26	25	5
Winston	2192	74	130	39
Yalobusha	1412	36	82	22
Yazoo	2815	61	139	18
Total	288,714	6,501	10,357	1,936