{"id":109663,"date":"2021-02-22T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109663"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:47:46","slug":"new-covid-19-cases-in-mississippi-at-lowest-level-since-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/new-covid-19-cases-in-mississippi-at-lowest-level-since-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Cases in Mississippi at Lowest Level Since April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today the <strong>Mississippi Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH) is reporting 242 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and no new deaths. This is the fewest amount in one day since April of 2020. Mississippi&#8217;s total of COVID-19 cases since February 2020 now stands at 290,874, with 6,553 deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 93 active outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (where an outbreak is one or more cases among residents or staff). There are 5 new long-term care cases and 0 new long-term care deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-Hospitalizations.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-Hospitalizations.png?resize=640%2C402\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-Hospitalizations.png?w=824&amp;ssl=1 824w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-Hospitalizations.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-Hospitalizations.png?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More details of COVID-19 in the state, along with preventive steps to take against coronavirus and statewide testing locations, are online at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA1MTkuMjE3MzQ3OTEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vSGVhbHRoeU1TLmNvbS9jb3ZpZC0xOT9waHI9Y292aWQtMTkifQ.frAgC9Dyxr98IJqU8cQ7W0_bQ4fbKc0X0LYVgblxtVg\/br\/78836291603-l\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/covid-19<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline<\/strong> is the best way to get your questions about COVID-19 answered. Call 877-978-6453 from 7 am to 11 pm seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) is reporting 242 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":109665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346],"tags":[16207,16051,16052,5,16144],"class_list":["post-109663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-cases","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-02-22-MS-CoronaVirus-2.png?fit=695%2C695&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}