While most of the country is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases, Louisiana’s numbers have remained steady, but in the last week, daily averages are showing an upward trend. The state reported 744 additional COVID-19 cases Wednesday and hospitalizations increased by 22, Governor John Bel Edwards says it’s troublesome.
“Just a few days ago we were in the mid 500’s so that’s the statistic that’s most concerning to me right now.”
Edwards points out that while Louisiana is one of 15 states in the “orange zone” for per capita cases most states are in the “red zone” meaning 100 cases per 100-thousand people.
“Most of the country is in the third surge or the second wave whatever you would want to say and I’m not going to say that it’s happening here yet although I can tell you that we’ve had a very slight increase over the last week in the percent positivity of our tests.”
Governor Edwards says Louisiana is doing much better compared to other southern states and that our mitigation efforts are working.
“That’s how you keep the biggest part of your economy open as much as possible, open your schools, your universities, and have as much normalcy as possible and you can do it without transmitting the disease.”
Edwards says he remains in contact with the Coronavirus Task Force and continues to follow White House mitigation guidelines.
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