Sunflower County is seemingly in the midst of some progress with regard to reducing the number of new cases of COVID-19. On Tuesday, Sunflower County Emergency Management Director Denny Evans said the county’s new case rate has dropped dramatically.
As it stands, the county is experiencing less than 10 new cases per day and for the 24-hour period between Monday and Tuesday there were only two.
As of 6 p.m. on Monday, the Mississippi Department of Health reported 3,157 cases so far for Sunflower County. Sunflower is one of several counties in the state that is still under a governor-ordered mask mandate that is expected to remain in effect until March 3.
However, Governor Tate Reeves said on Tuesday that some of Mississippi’s pandemic-related restrictions could be lifted in the coming week. “We are in conversations as to what a new executive order may look like and what restrictions make sense for us to take off the books and which ones should stay on a little bit longer,” Reeves said.
