The Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department received positive test results for 81 more cases of COVID-19. We now have 1,187 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Madison County.

The newest confirmed cases include 64 inmates from the Madison County Criminal Justice Complex. The newest confirmed cases include 71 males, 10 females, and range from ages 13 to 79.

Our Epidemiology staff are still trying to contact some of these individuals, so hospitalization status is unknown at this time. We are also reaching out to people who had close contact with these cases.

Fourteen Madison County residents are currently hospitalized. Two of those patients are on a ventilator.

Seven hundred seven Madison County residents have recovered from COVID-19, and 64 people say they are feeling better.