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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Adams County increased by 9.4 percent Thursday.

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported an additional six cases of the virus in Adams County in its morning report. On Thursday, MSDH said the county has 70 cases of the virus.

The cases in Adams County are increasing at a slightly higher rate than the state — which saw a 7.8 percent increase in confirmed cases Thursday.

MSDH reported an additional 264 cases of the virus for the state, raising the state’s total to 3,624 cases. The state also reported an additional 7 deaths from the virus, raising the state’s total to 129 deaths from COVID-19.

Here is a look at the county numbers reported by the state on Thursday:

County	Cases	Deaths	LTCs with Outbreaks
Adams	70	4	2
Alcorn	7
Amite	16	1
Attala	28
Benton	5
Bolivar	74	5	4
Calhoun	30	2	1
Carroll	9	1
Chickasaw	37	2	1
Choctaw	11	1
Claiborne	8
Clarke	20	1	2
Clay	21
Coahoma	45	1
Copiah	39	1
Covington	19
Desoto	211	3	1
Forrest	134	2	2
Franklin	14
George	8
Greene	3
Grenada	14		1
Hancock	50	5	2
Harrison	134	5	2
Hinds	301	4	5
Holmes	53	3
Humphreys	12	3	1
Itawamba	13		1
Jackson	189	5	2
Jasper	19
Jefferson	4		1
Jefferson Davis	7	1
Jones	48		3
Kemper	16
Lafayette	39	2
Lamar	56	1
Lauderdale	174	12	6
Lawrence	10
Leake	50	1
Lee	48	4
Leflore	62	6	1
Lincoln	86	6	2
Lowndes	30		1
Madison	116	3	3
Marion	35		1
Marshall	37	2
Monroe	54	3	2
Montgomery	15	1
Neshoba	39	1
Newton	16		1
Noxubee	18
Oktibbeha	42	1	2
Panola	27	2
Pearl River	112	8	2
Perry	20	1
Pike	82	2	2
Pontotoc	16	2
Prentiss	15		1
Quitman	13
Rankin	122	2	1
Scott	100		1
Sharkey	3
Simpson	13		1
Smith	37	1	1
Stone	16
Sunflower	43	2
Tallahatchie	7
Tate	27
Tippah	45	6	1
Tishomingo	2
Tunica	26	1	1
Union	9	1	1
Walthall	22
Warren	16	1
Washington	67	2	2
Wayne	10
Webster	15	1
Wilkinson	53	3	1
Winston	24
Yalobusha	14
Yazoo	72	1
Total	3,624	129	65