New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell files to extend the citywide shelter in place order to May 16th.
Governor Edwards says that declaration does not guarantee he will extend the statewide order past April 30th. He says it’s clear some regions are still more heavily impacted by coronavirus than others.
“You would expect that hotspots would do things differently so I’m not expecting the Mayor of Ville Platte to necessarily do the same thing,” says Edwards.
About half of the state’s confirmed positive cases have been found in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes.
Edwards says when the shelter in place order is lifted statewide, he’d like to see people wearing masks whenever they go out in public to shop, but he likely wouldn’t mandate it.
“It would be more likely that we would mandate the workers at the stores and restaurants that will be open, that they have to have a mask on,” says Edwards.
Any return to normalcy won’t be complete without the return of sports, but Edwards warns even once the order is lifted things like sporting events could be logistically difficult.
“I don’t know if they can sell every other seat, find different ways to get people in and out of games so that they are not all piled on top of one and other, I don’t know if you are going to be temperature checked,” says Edwards.
Cantrell previously mentioned there would be no large events in New Orleans for the rest of 2020, but the Saints organization says it’s planning operations under the assumption there will be games.
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