204 new coronavirus cases, 14 new deaths reported Tuesday in Mississippi

Nearing 5- thousand cases of coronavirus now, if you break down each part of our viewing area: monroe county has become a hot spot for the virus with 95 cases confirmed.

Another hot spot: lee county with 64 cases.

Now we move on to the golden triangle area oktibbeha county has 44 cases with 3 deaths other hot spots includes winston county with 34 and lowndes county with 35.

Heading back north west in the oxford area, lafayette county has become a major hot spot all across the viewing area.

Lafayette county with 68 cases confirmed.

Calhoun county has 42 confirmed cases, and marshall is just behind with 39 even as the numbers in the state continue to rise, governor tate reeves said he believes the worse might soon be over.

And as for our local counties in alabama, marion county still leads with more than 60 coronvirus cases.

Pickens county is now above 40.

The mississippi state department of health this morning reported 204 new cases of coronavirus.

That put the statewide total at more than 47 hundred.

The latest report by the state said there are 14 new deaths, bringing the state total now to 183.

Locally, chickasaw county is up to four deaths.

Monroe county leads the area with eight deaths.

County is up to four deaths.

Monroe county leads the area with eight deaths.

As we look at our data in mississippi, it is very clear that our curve is flattening ."

(r)-mississippi ) and this is what the governor is referring to --- the latest data from the institute for health metrics and evaluation.

At the start of the coronavirus in the mississippi ihme projected more than 12-hundred deaths by april 18th as you can see, that number is now 369 by august 9th one