Live updates April 29: South Mississippi has 3 new deaths from COVID-19
Seven weeks since the first case of coronavirus was reported in Mississippi, the death toll in the state has reached 250.
The state Health Department reported 11 additional deaths in the last day, 3 of them in Pearl River County.
That pushes total deaths to 18 in Pearl River County, 6 in Harrison and Jackson counties, 5 in Hancock County and 1 in George County.
Mississippi has 227 new cases, down from 248 reported Tuesday. The Health Department said 31 of the new cases are residents of long-term care facilities. Total cases in Mississippi is now is 6,569.
In South Mississippi there were 12 new cases, down from 22 on Tuesday, and the total now stands at 679.
Stone County’s total has remained at 22 cases for the seventh straight day, and it has 0 deaths from coronavirus.
Total cases in South Mississippi are:
George — 13 (1 new)
Hancock — 61 (0 new)
Harrison — 171 (5 new)
Jackson — 255 (3 new)
Pearl River — 157 (3 new)
Stone 22 (0 new)
Editor’s note: This story originally said there were 5 new deaths in South Mississippi. Our calculations were incorrect and we apologize for the error.
Coronavirus cases in the U.S. now top 1 million and 57,505 across the country have died during the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control reported today another 23,901 new cases and 2,247 additional deaths. Nationwide there are 1,005,147 cases.
3:51 p.m.
Gov. Tate Reeves invited the state’s two senators, Roger Wiger and Cindy Hyde-Smith, to speak to the media during his daily press conference on Wednesday.
Before he turned the microphone over to the two senators, he rolled off a list of items that were delivered Tuesday to the state’s hospitals through federal funding secured by the two senators.
▪ 860,000 masks
▪ 1,200 gallons of hand sanitizer
▪ 1,000 containers of disinfectant wipes.
1:30 p.m.
Long Beach officials have lifted the city curfew effective tomorrow at 5 a.m.
1 p.m.
Ingalls Shipbuilding reports 31 cases of coronavirus, with today’s addition of an employee who works at the wheelabrator/blast hall. The employee’s last day at the Pascagoula shipyard was April 18. The company said 13 of those who tested positive now are eligible to return to work.
9:45 a.m.
Stone County libraries in Wiggins are offering curbside service from 1-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and at McHenry from 9 a.m.-noon Tuesdays. Contact the library through Facebook messenger or email wig@pineforest.lib.ms.us; mch@pineforest.lib.ms.us.
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Gov. Tate Reeves will be joined today by U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker at his 2:30 p.m. press briefing on COVID-19 Response. It can be seen on Reeves’ Facebook page.
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American Red Cross Blood drives will be held at the following locations:
- May 3 —St. Patrick Catholic High School , 18300 St. Patrick Road, Biloxi. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
- May 8 — Pascagoula-Gautier Community Blood Drive at 3214 Pascagoula St., Pascagoula. 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
- May 9 — Edgewater Mall, 2600 Beach Blvd., Biloxi 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- May 11 — Diamondhead Community Center, Diamondhead Circle, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
May 12 — Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, 777 Beach Blvd., Biloxi. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Singing River Health Systems reports only 1 positive coronavirus test result reported back to their lab Tuesday, bringing total COVID-19 positives to date to 211.
Tuesday’s highlights
▪ Twenty-two new coronavirus and one death were reported in South Mississippi on Tuesday.
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 248 new cases of COVID-10 and 10 additional deaths statewide, bringing the total to 6,342 cases and 239 deaths. he highest single-day number of cases reported in the state was 300 on April 19.
The Health Department said 42 of the 248 new cases on Tuesday are in long-term care facilities.
▪ Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday the state will hire a third party to help make sure that COVID-19 relief funding provided by the CARES Act will be distributed fairly.
“We want to make sure the federal emergency money gets in the right hands,” he said. Mississippi received $1.25 billion through the act, according to Reeves, and he has a healthy list of causes to put those funds toward.
▪ A temporary Memorial Physician COVID-19 screening and testing site will be set up Monday at First Missionary Baptist Church in Pass Christian. Testing at the church, which is located at 250 Clark Ave., will run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
▪ Feed My Sheep is hosting a mobile COVID-19 testing unit from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Coastal Family Health at 2615 19th Street in Gulfport to provide free testing for its clients.
This story was originally published April 29, 2020 at 11:30 AM.