A million Mississippians have received COVID vaccine

As of Monday, Mississippi had administered a million COVID-19 vaccination shots, Gov. Tate Reeves announced.

Of those one million shots, 57,513 were administered in Madison County, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Wednesday COVID-19 report. That number was up 7,579 from last week’s 49,934 total.

The MSDH vaccination report does not distinguish the county of residence of the people receiving the vaccines so all of those vaccines may not have been administered to people who are residents of Madison County.

Vaccines are currently available for all Mississippians age 16 and older and are available at the Walmart locations in Canton and Madison. Go to https://msdh.ms.gov/c19appointment#local to check availability. 

Vaccinations also are currently being administered by appointment in Madison County at Canton High School, 634 Finney Road in Canton on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Sign up online at covidvaccine.umc.edu or call 1-877-978-6453. The website is the best option, officials have said.

Madison County has recorded 9,757 COVID-19 cases, up 76 cases from 9,681 in last week’s report, and 207 COVID-19 deaths, up one from last week’s report, since the pandemic began last March, according to MSDH statistics released Wednesday.

In total, Mississippi has recorded 186,684 confirmed cases and 116,941 probable cases for a total of 303,625 COVID-19 cases and 6,981 deaths since the start of the pandemic last March.

Madison-Ridgeland Academy was the only school to report COVID-19 information to MSDH for the March 19 school report. MRA has recorded 32 positive COVID-19 cases since January.