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The number of COVID-19 cases in Adams County doubled overnight — from 3 cases Thursday to 6 cases Friday — after the Mississippi Department of Health released its report of confirmed cases Friday morning.

MSDH reports 579 confirmed cases of the virus with eight deaths. The number of cases increased by 94 cases.

In southwest Mississippi, the number of cases in Jefferson County and Wilkinson County also increased. Jefferson County, which previously had no reported cases, now has one confirmed cased of the virus. The number of confirmed cases in Wilkinson County increased to nine cases — up one case from Thursday.

County	Cases	Deaths
Adams	6
Attala	8
Benton	2
Bolivar	9
Calhoun	3
Chickasaw	9
Choctaw	4
Clay	2
Coahoma	18
Copiah	8
Desoto	63
Forrest	16
Franklin	2
George	1
Grenada	2
Hancock	9	1
Harrison	34	1
Hinds	50
Holmes	10	1
Humphreys	1
Itawamba	3
Jackson	24
Jefferson	1
Jones	1
Kemper	1
Lafayette	11
Lamar	4
Lauderdale	10
Lawrence	5
Leake	4
Lee	15
Leflore	13
Lincoln	6
Lowndes	9
Madison	25
Marion	1
Marshall	9
Monroe	3
Montgomery	4
Neshoba	1
Newton	1
Noxubee	1
Oktibbeha	12
Panola	4
Pearl River	18
Perry	2
Pike	12
Pontotoc	4
Prentiss	1
Quitman	3
Rankin	29	1
Scott	6
Sharkey	1
Simpson	1
Smith	1
Sunflower	5
Tallahatchie	2
Tate	8
Tippah	15	1
Tunica	6	1
Union	3
Walthall	4
Washington	11
Webster	3	1
Wilkinson	9	1
Winston	3
Yalobusha	3
Yazoo	4
Total	579	8