We are bringing you the latest COVID-19 Mississippi trends with daily case, death and hospitalization updates, as well as testing data charts and other helpful interactive maps and graphs.

This page was last updated Tuesday, November 17:

New cases: 905| New Deaths: 36

Total Hospitalizations: 807

Total cases: 135,803| Total Deaths: 3,581

Mask Mandates | On Sept. 30, Gov. Tate Reeves ended the statewide mask mandate order, originally issued Aug. 4. On Nov. 11, Reeves extended the mask mandate for the counties of: Benton, Carroll, Covington, DeSoto, Forrest, Harrison, Humphreys, Jackson, Lamar, Lauderdale, Leflore, Lee, Marshall, Rankin, and Yalobusha. State health officials still encourage widespread masking and credit the mandate with helping cases improve after a steep summer spike. View the full list of COVID-19 orders here.

All data and information reported by the Mississippi State Department of Health as of 6 p.m. yesterday

Weekly update: Tuesday, November 10

COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the U.S. — particularly overwhelming rural areas. In Mississippi this week, the average number of daily cases surpassed 900 for the first time in three months and has continued to climb. 

Tuesday’s jump of 933 cases brings the rolling average to 947 daily cases – only 20 days of the entire pandemic have reached this threshold. The jump also resulted in a 42% increase in average new cases over the last week — the 26th largest increase since the pandemic began, comprising the only jump that large not in the March/April or June/July case surges. 

The recent case surge also totaled more than 6,600 weekly cases for the state, or about 223 per 100,000 residents — the most since early August when peak summer cases were just beginning to decline. 

While counties in North Mississippi and on the Coast continue to see the most regional case growth, more central counties are starting to see spikes again, with Jefferson Davis (11% increase in the last week), Carroll and Stone County (both 10%) experiencing the sharpest rises. In central Carroll County, 19% of COVID-19 tests came back positive the last week of October, according to the state health department, while the Coast’s Jackson County saw more than a quarter of all tests come back positive.

Hospitalizations have sharply risen over the last month. Compared to a month ago, the seven-day average for hospitalizations is up 22%. Overall the state’s ICU beds are 87% full, compared to a baseline of 66% in 2018. The state’s 16 highest level COVID-19 hospitals’ ICUs are 92% full, housing 33% more patients with the coronavirus than three weeks ago.

According to Harvard’s Global Health Institute tracker, Mississippi ranks 26th in new cases per capita. The tracker puts Mississippi and neighboring states Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas all in the “red” risk level, indicating 25 or more new cases per 100,000 people. Louisiana, Florida and Georgia are in the “orange” risk level, the tier just below. 

As far as deaths, Mississippi now ranks sixth in most total deaths per capita after long hovering at seventh, and ranks 17th in recent deaths per capita, according to the New York Times’ tracker.  

MSDH estimates 111,430 people have recovered.

Click through the links below to view our interactive charts describing the trends around the coronavirus in Mississippi:

View our COVID-19 resource page for more information about coronavirus in Mississippi.

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