The Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department confirms a 70-year-old male died March 12 due to complications from COVID-19. This brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 199 in Madison County.

The health department received positive test results for six more cases of COVID-19. We now have 10,982 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Madison County – 10,427 have recovered.

The newest confirmed cases range from ages 14 to 70.

Our Epidemiology staff is reaching out to these individuals and people who had close contact with these cases.

Three Madison County residents are currently hospitalized. One of those patients is on a ventilator.