5-1-20
WHILE LOUISIANA BATTLES COVID-NINETEEN, LAWMAKERS ADDRESS HOW TO RESUME THE STATE SESSION IN A SAFE WAY. GERALD GREUNIG REPORTS.
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THE NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS CASES IN LOUISIANA HAS ECLIPSED TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND. THAT INCLUDES THREE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE MORE CASES REPORTED YESTERDAY BY THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THERE ARE SIXTY MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE FOR A TOTAL OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO. HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE TO DECLINE WITH TWENTY-EIGHT FEWER COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS AND THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DROPPED BY THIRTEEN.
ACADIANA SAW AN INCREASE OF THIRTY-ONE NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES. THE TOTAL HAS REACHED ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE CASES. THERE ARE EIGHT MORE DEATHS IN ACADIANA. EVANGELINE PARISH HAD IT’S FIRST RECORDED DEATH. MEANWHILE ST. LANDRY PARISH HAD THREE MORE DEATHS AND HAS THE MOST OF ANY ACADIANA PARISH AT FORTY-TWO. IBERIA PARISH HAS TWO MORE WHILE ACADIA AND ST. MARTIN PARISHES HAD ONE EACH. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS IN ACADIANA IS AT ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS FIVE MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES, ALL IN CALCASIEU AND BEAUREGARD PARISHES. THE TOTAL IS FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE. THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. THE TOTAL DEATHS REMAINS AT FORTY-SEVEN.
ABOUT TEN TO FIFTEEN PERCENT OF BUSINESSES IN LAFAYETTE PARISH CANNOT REOPEN YET, ACCORDING TO THE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY, MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY SAYS HE WANTS TO SEE THESE BUSINESSES UP AND RUNNING BY MAY FIFTEENTH UNDER SAFE SHOP GUIDELINES. GUILLORY SAYS THEY HAVE BEST PRACTICES AND MODELS IN PLACE, AND HE WILL WORK WITH THE STATE GOVERNMENT TO SEE IF THERE’S A WAY TO OPEN BEFORE MAY FIFTEENTH. GOVERNOR EDWARDS SAID IN HIS OWN PRESS CONFERENCE THAT PARISHES AND MAYORS CAN BE MORE RESTRICTIVE THAN THE STATE GUIDELINES BUT THEY ARE NOT FREE TO BE LESS RESTRICTIVE.
A RAYNE BUSINESS OWNER HAS MADE A DONATION TO THE RAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT. POLICE CHIEF CARROLL STELLY SAYS THEY RECEIVED HAND SANITIZER FROM DWAYNE BREAUX OF BREAUX’S CRAWFISH. STELLY SAYS THAT SANITIZER IS SOMETHING THEY NEEDED BECAUSE IT’S HARD TO GET. HE THANKED BREAUX FOR THINKING OF HIS OFFICERS AT THIS TIME.
HANES HAS DONATED CLOTH MASKS TO THE IBERIA PARISH COUNCIL AND THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY. THE MASKS WILL BE HANDED OUT AT IBERIA SENIOR HIGH BEGINNING TOMORROW MORNING AT 8:30 AND WILL END WHEN THE SUPPLY RUNS OUT. THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY WILL ACCEPT MASK REQUESTS FROM AREA BUSINESSES AS PART OF THE REOPENING PLANS. GOVERNOR EDWARD’S REVISED STAY-AT-HOME ORDER REQUIRES ANY BUSINESS EMPLOYEE THAT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC TO WEAR MASKS.
Police in Louisiana say a male middle school teacher is accused of sending inappropriate text messages to at least one female student. Opelousas police said in a news release that 57-year-old Toranzo Arvie was arrested Tuesday and charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile. News outlets report he’s a teacher at Opelousas Junior High School. Police say a parent noticed the text messages and contacted authorities.
