4-1-20
LOUISIANA HAD ITS DEADLIEST DAY YET FROM THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. GERALD GREUNIG HAS THE DETAILS.
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SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS A TOTAL OF NINETY CASES OF THE CORONAVIRUS AND ONE DEATH. CALCASIEU PARISH LEADS THE WAY WITH SIXTY-FIVE CASES. ALLEN PARISH IS NEXT WITH FIFTEEN AND THERE ARE FIVE EACH IN JEFF DAVIS AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES. CAMERON PARISH STILL HAS NO CASES.
LAFAYETTE PARISH REPORTED ITS SECOND DEATH FROM THE CORONAVIRUS, ACCORDING TO CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER JAMIE ANGELLE. HE SAYS IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH’S UPDATE FROM YESTERDAY. LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF MARK GARBER IS REMINDING RESIDENTS NOT TO CONGREGATE IN GROUPS OF TEN OR MORE, WHICH IS A VIOLATION OF THE GOVERNOR’S ORDER. DUSON POLICE CHIEF KIP JUDICE SAYS HE’S STOPPED GIVING WARNINGS AND IS NOW ISSUING CITATIONS, INCLUDING FIVE OVER THE WEEKEND AND MONDAY.
THE IBERIA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ISSUED A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER TO A CHURCH IN JEANERETTE THAT IS CONTINUING TO MEET. CORPORAL WENDELL RAYBORN SAYS THE LETTER WAS ISSUED TUESDAY EVENING DURING A SERVICE AT THE CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH. THE SERVICE HAD ABOUT FIFTY PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE. RABORN SAYS IF THE CHURCH CONTINUES TO MEET, THE CITY MARSHAL AND CITY POLICE COULD ISSUE A SUMMONS AND THEY COULD EVEN ARREST THE PASTOR.
Louisiana is waiting for a promised shipment of ventilators from the national stockpile to help care for its most fragile COVID-19 patients. The state is bracing for a looming weekend deadline when New Orleans hospitals are expected to run out of the breathing devices. State lawmakers returned to the Capitol for a short introduction of last-minute bills Tuesday, including emergency measures related to the virus. Gov. John Bel Edwards responded to the spike in virus cases by doubling the number of overflow hospital beds being constructed at New Orleans’ convention center.
TESTING CONTINUES TODAY AND TOMORROW AT THE BURTON COLISEUM IN LAKE CHARLES FROM NINE THIS MORNING TO THREE-THIRTY IN THE AFTERNOON. THE SITE IS FOR RESIDENTS FROM CALCASIEU, JEFF DAVIS, ALLEN, BEAUREGARD AND CAMERON PARISHES. TO BE SCREENED, YOU MUST HAVE A FEVER AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: SHORTNESS OF BREATH, A COUGH, RUNNY NOSE, BODY ACHES OR A SORE THROAT. A DOCTOR’S NOTE IS NOT NECESSARY BUT THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY ASKS YOU TO PRODUCE A DRIVER’S LICENSE OR SOME OTHER FORM OF I-D AND YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE INFORMATION.
THE PARISH PRESIDENTS IN ACADIANA ARE PUSHING THE FOLLOWING MOTTO FOR SHOPPING, “ ONE BUGGY, ONE PERSON.” ITS ONE OF THE NEWEST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARISHES ACROSS ACADIANA. LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY SAYS THE RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE ONE PERSON PER CART WHEN SHOPPING IS NOT A LAW BUT A PLEA. SOME RESIDENTS FIND THAT HARD TO DO BECAUSE OF KIDS BEING OFF OF SCHOOL AND NOT BEING ABLE TO LEAVE THEM AT HOME.
A BUTTE LA ROSE MAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY MORNING IN A FOUR WHEELER ACCIDENT IN ST. MARTIN PARISH. SEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD HERMAN COURVILLE WAS RIDING ON A LEVEE ALONG THE ATCHAFALAYA RIVER HIGHWAY IN BUTTE LA ROSE. THE FOUR WHEELER FLIPPED FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON AND HE WAS EJECTED. ST. MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE SPOKESWOMAN GINNY HIGGINS SAYS COURVILLE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
