{"id":86520,"date":"2020-04-16T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=86520"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:36:08","slug":"mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-3624-and-129-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-3624-and-129-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi COVID-19 Cases Rise to 3,624 and 129 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> is reporting 264 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and 7 new deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total of Mississippi\u2019s cases since March 11 now stands at 3,624, with 129 deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free drive-through COVID-19 testing for those with qualifying symptoms is coming this weekend to city of <strong>Marks <\/strong>and the <strong>Jackson State University<\/strong> campus.  For details, see\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/healthyms.com\/covid19test\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/covid19test<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA0MTYuMjAyNDI3MzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vSGVhbHRoeU1TLmNvbS9jb3ZpZC0xOSJ9.Y2nfM4zjzYFRfZWzNFaaidBCzOtRG6VaKajaGinlllY\/br\/77498059500-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 any time: 877-978-6453. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest state map shows Mississippi&#8217;s case total as reported at 6 pm last night. <\/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\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-16-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=633%2C591\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-16-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?w=633&amp;ssl=1 633w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-16-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=300%2C280&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 264 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":86522,"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":[16051,16052,11168,16254,5,16175,16144,4],"class_list":["post-86520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-jackson-state-university","tag-marks","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-coronavirus-hotline","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-16-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?fit=633%2C591&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86520","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=86520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}