A Starkville nursing home has a patient with a case of COVID-19 coronavirus.
Judy Otts, director of Carrington Nursing Center, confirmed Tuesday there is one case of the virus in the facility, which is located on Reed Road. Like most area nursing homes and assisted living facilities, Carrington has been on lockdown for the past few weeks.
“We have and continue to follow the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines,” Otts said.
Those guidelines include isolating patients with COVID-19 from others in the facility, according to the CDC’s website.
As of Wednesday morning, the Mississippi State Department of Health reported there are now 1,073 confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus statewide. More than 135 cases were reported Tuesday alone.
Among the total numbers are 18 cases in Oktibbeha County, 11 in Lowndes County, five in Clay County and three in Noxubee County.
Additionally, 22 people have now died from the virus in Mississippi, according to MSDH’s website, though none are from the Golden Triangle area.
Nationally, about 4,000 people have died from COVID-19, while more than 185,000 people have been diagnosed with the virus, according to national media outlets.
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