The COVID-19 death count for Tallahatchie County rose to 26 on Friday, Oct. 23, as one more local victim was reported by the Mississippi State Department of Health.
In figures released Thursday, Oct. 29, MDHS indicated 858 Tallahatchians have tested positive for the virus since the first local person tested positive in late March.
Statewide, a total of 118,587 Mississippians have tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to the MSDH Thursday report. Of that number, 3,310 have died and an estimated 101,385 have recovered.
The report showed that a total of 600 Mississippians were hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19, while another 99 were hospitalized with a suspected case.
Thursday’s case totals for Tallahatchie and area counties were as follows, with previous day’s figures in parenthesis and deaths in bold:
» Coahoma: 1,265 (1,258) 37
» Grenada: 1,231 (1,229) 39
» Lafayette: 2,531 (2,513) 43
» Leflore: 1,730 (1,706) 88
» Panola: 1,722 (1,720) 41
» Quitman: 424 (423) 6
» Sunflower: 1,659 (1,643) 49
» Tallahatchie: 858 (855) 26
» Yalobusha: 566 (564) 16
State totals of new COVID-19 positive cases have skyrocketed in recent weeks, including a total of 6,404 over the last seven days — an average of 915 per day. The deaths of 87 Mississippians have been attributed to the virus during that same timespan.
