These counties will be under a mask mandate when indoors, and social gatherings will be limited to 10 people indoors and 50 people outdoors.
The full list of counties includes:
- Benton
- Carroll
- Chickasaw
- Claiborne
- DeSoto
- Forrest
- Harrison
- Itawamba
- Jackson
- Jones
- Lamar
- Leake
- Lee
- Madison
- Marshall
- Neshoba
They fit under the governor’s criteria for additional measures, which includes more than 500 cases per 100,000 residents over two weeks or more than 200 total cases over two weeks.