{"id":86992,"date":"2020-04-29T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=86992"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:02:31","slug":"mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-6569-and-250-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-6569-and-250-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi COVID-19 Cases Rise to 6,569 and 250 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> is reporting 227 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and 11 new deaths. Thirty-one of these new cases were among residents in long-term care facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of Mississippians currently hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infection has risen to 430.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi&#8217;s total COVID-19 cases since March 11 now stands at 6,569, with 250 deaths.<\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMDA0MjkuMjA4MTAxMzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vSGVhbHRoeU1TLmNvbS9jb3ZpZC0xOT9waHI9Q09WSUQtMTkifQ.b8D71MNvo_lKo98g5fzugpaPktHbrGrfX2QMZk-VWS0\/br\/77997187917-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline 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=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 227 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 11 new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":86993,"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":[16051,16052,5,16144],"class_list":["post-86992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","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\/2020\/04\/2020-04-29-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?fit=695%2C695&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992","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=86992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}