The state health department has reported 2,594 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 65 deaths. Twenty-six of the cases and two of the newly-reported deaths occurred in Lincoln County. The deaths were identified from death certificate reports Sept. 1-15. Lincoln has reported 5,217 cases and 129 related deaths to date.

The majority of cases in Lincoln County during the week ending Sept. 4 — the latest available data — occurred in people age 18-64 (80%), while only 10% of cases were in each of the 65-plus age range and 5-17-year-old age range. No cases were in ages 4 and under, which saw 31 cases in August. Sixty-eight percent of cases in the first week of September were in people who identified their race as white, and 24% in those who identified their race as black. The remaining 8% were identified as “other” or unknown.

As of Tuesday, MSDH reported 1,089 patients hospitalized with confirmed infections and 57 with suspected infections. There were 385 in intensive care units and 265 were on ventilators.

King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven reported 13 COVID-positive patients Wednesday, 11 of which were unvaccinated. Seven of the COVID-positive patients were in the ICU on ventilators.

The hospital had administered 114 monoclonal antibody treatments in the first 13 days of September.

Mississippi State Department of Health has now recorded 471,092 cases and 9,165 fatalities.