Rural coronavirus cases increase 28 percent in the past day

"About a third of the nation’s rural counties have reported a case of coronavirus as of Thursday, March 26. Those cases have resulted in 32 deaths, an increase of 11 from Wednesday," The Daily Yonder reports. "The number of covid-19 cases in rural America grew by 613 yesterday, bringing the total number of cases reported in rural counties to 2,773."

See The Daily Yonder story for a county-level map of cases.