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NATCHEZ — Two more people died with COVID-19 on Christmas night Friday at Merit Health Natchez, Adams County Coroner James Lee said.

A 54-year-old man from Natchez and an 84-year-old female from Roxie were both pronounced dead on Friday night from COVID-19, Lee said.

Not including the latest death, the Mississippi State Department of Health on Saturday recorded a total of 57 deaths and 1,745 COVID-19 cases in Adams County since March.

Statewide, 845 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths and 239 long-term care facility outbreaks have been reported by MSDH on Saturday.

The state’s total now stands at 205,023 cases and 4,565 deaths since March.

MSDH also reported 1,312 confirmed positive patients in Mississippi hospitals and 339 of those patients in ICU as of Tuesday, Dec. 22, which is the latest data available.

 

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths
Adams	1745	57
Alcorn	2046	39
Amite	819	20
Attala	1652	44
Benton	642	20
Bolivar	3235	95
Calhoun	1096	16
Carroll	910	17
Chickasaw	1521	35
Choctaw	479	10
Claiborne	690	18
Clarke	1151	57
Clay	1254	30
Coahoma	1897	51
Copiah	2121	43
Covington	1758	66
De Soto	13932	132
Forrest	5026	95
Franklin	557	7
George	1666	34
Greene	955	25
Grenada	1910	60
Hancock	1882	53
Harrison	10133	139
Hinds	13403	248
Holmes	1545	64
Humphreys	702	22
Issaquena	145	4
Itawamba	2162	49
Jackson	8367	151
Jasper	1306	25
Jefferson	458	14
Jefferson Davis	733	22
Jones	4947	95
Kemper	639	19
Lafayette	4071	76
Lamar	3909	56
Lauderdale	4695	168
Lawrence	902	16
Leake	1930	49
Lee	7246	111
Leflore	2527	98
Lincoln	2434	74
Lowndes	4094	85
Madison	6815	128
Marion	1691	59
Marshall	2813	63
Monroe	2821	84
Montgomery	951	30
Neshoba	2873	137
Newton	1527	32
Noxubee	893	20
Oktibbeha	3221	70
Panola	3027	68
Pearl River	2394	79
Perry	827	30
Pike	2106	65
Pontotoc	2991	38
Prentiss	1987	41
Quitman	588	7
Rankin	8284	156
Scott	2039	38
Sharkey	378	17
Simpson	1904	60
Smith	971	18
Stone	1109	18
Sunflower	2315	59
Tallahatchie	1170	29
Tate	2303	56
Tippah	1871	40
Tishomingo	1498	51
Tunica	719	19
Union	2629	34
Walthall	951	33
Warren	2487	75
Washington	4075	112
Wayne	1586	25
Webster	697	18
Wilkinson	511	22
Winston	1753	44
Yalobusha	944	31
Yazoo	2012	50
Total	205,023	4,565