{"id":88474,"date":"2020-06-02T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=88474"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:25:18","slug":"mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-16020-and-767-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-16020-and-767-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi COVID-19 Cases Rise to 16,020 and 767 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Today the <strong>Mississippi Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH) is reporting 268 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and 28 new deaths. Mississippi&#8217;s total of COVID-19 cases since March 11 now stands at 16,020, with 767 deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently there are 455 Mississippians hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>39 of the new cases reported today were among residents in long-term care facilities, and there are now 127 active outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (where an outbreak is one or more cases among residents or staff).<\/p>\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\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) is reporting 268 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":88482,"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":[16052,16256,16333,5,16144],"class_list":["post-88474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-hospitalization","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02-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\/88474","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=88474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}