{"id":86108,"date":"2020-04-06T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=86108"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:45:00","slug":"mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1738-and-51-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1738-and-51-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi COVID-19 Cases Rise to 1,738 and 51 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td>This morning  <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> is reporting 100 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and eight new deaths. <br><br>Coronavirus cases have also been identified in three more long-term care facilities across the state. The total of Mississippi\u2019s cases since March 11 now stands at 1,738, with 51 deaths.<br><br>Total statewide COVID-19 testing figures as of April 5 are now also available.\u00a0 MSDH, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and commercial laboratories have performed 20,370 tests of Mississippians since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.<br><br>More details of COVID-19 in the state, along with preventive steps to take against coronavirus, are online at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA0MDYuMTk3OTgwMTEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vSGVhbHRoeU1TLmNvbS9jb3ZpZC0xOSJ9.SrqWRsNI3YEzyO4cH95SDUJ6IDd_aS_SGoCOSHZJMek\/br\/77073881280-l\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/covid-19<\/a><br><br>The Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline is the best way to get your questions about COVID-19 answered. Call any time: 877-978-6453.<br><br>The latest state map shows Mississippi&#8217;s case total as reported at 6 pm last night.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"631\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-06-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=631%2C605\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-06-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?w=631&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-06-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/figure>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 100 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and eight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":86110,"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":[19],"tags":[16207,16051,16052,6861,5,16144],"class_list":["post-86108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cases","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-death","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-06-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?fit=631%2C605&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86108","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=86108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}