The crowds under the Friday Night Lights tonight will double in 26 parishes after Governor John Bel Edwards amends the state health order allowing a capacity increase at outdoor high school sporting events.
“We are going to allow stadiums to move to 50-percent capacity if they’re in parishes with a percent positivity of less than 5-percent for previous last two weeks. Based on the most recent report from LDH,” says Edwards.
Stadiums had been capped at 25-percent capacity.
Parishes, where the positivity rate of COVID cases are 5-percent or less in the previous two weeks, will be allowed to expand capacity.
Edwards says it’s similar to the approach made with bars.
“However, we’re not going to require that schools or school districts or parishes opt-in. Their capacity will be 50-percent if they meet the criteria,” says Edwards.
Edwards encouraged residents to continue to practice social distancing and wear face masks so capacity numbers can remain at 50-percent and remaining parishes can increase crowd sizes as well.
“As with bars, if a parish’s percent positivity gets back up to 10-percent or more, or I should say over 10-percent for two-weeks then they will go back to having 25-percent capacity,” says Edwards.
The Louisiana Department of Health updates parish positivity rates, weekly every Wednesday.
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