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Teachers and students will have to wear face coverings as much as possible. Schools will be limited to visitors. And classrooms for young students could become the equivalent of a one-room schoolhouse. Those provisions are included in new coronavirus regulations for Louisiana schools approved Tuesday by the state’s top school board. The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adopted the minimum safety standards for schools reopening this fall a day before the deadline set by state lawmakers. The rules include a mask mandate for students in grades 3 through 12. But that regulation has language applying the face coverings “to the greatest extent possible and practical.”
HOSPITALIZATIONS CONTINUE TO RISE AT A STEADY PACE IN LOUISIANA WITH FIFTY-FOUR NEW PATIENTS. THERE WERE TWO THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES. LOUISIANA HAS HAD A TOTAL OF EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND CASES. THERE ARE TWENTY-TWO MORE DEATHS.
IN ACADIANA, THERE WERE SIX MORE DEATHS, TWO IN ST. MARTIN PARISH AND ONE EACH IN ACADIA, IBERIA, LAFAYETTE AND VERMILLION PARISHES. THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION IS TWO HUNDRED NINETY. THE REGION HAD FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX MORE CASES. ACADIANA NOW HAS HAD MORE THAN ELEVEN THOUSAND CASES TOTAL.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS A TOTAL OVER FIVE THOUSAND FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH AN ADDITIONAL TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE REPORTED YESTERDAY. THAT INCLUDES NEARLY TWO HUNDRED IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE WERE FOUR DEATHS IN THE REGION, INCLUDING TWO IN ALLEN PARISH AND ONE EACH IN CALCASIEU AND JEFF DAVIS PARISHES. THE TOTAL IS ONE HUNDRED NINE.
PEOPLE AROUND ACADIANA ARE WONDERING IF THEY WILL GET IN TROUBLE FOR NOT WEARING A MASK. CAROLINE MARCELLO TELLS US HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT IS HANDLING IT IN ACADIA PARISH.
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YESTERDAY HOSPICE OF ACADIANA BROKE GROUND ON A NEW TWELVE-BED IN-PATIENT HOSPICE HOUSE, WHICH WILL BE LOCATED ON CHRISTOPHER STREET IN LAFAYETTE. THE TWO-POINT-SIX MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY IS EXPECTED TO BE READY TO TAKE PATIENTS IN JUNE OF NEXT YEAR. HOSPICE OF ACADIANA HAS RAISED HALF OF THE MONEY AND THEY HOPE TO REACH THEIR GOAL BY THE END OF CONSTRUCTION. THE FACILITY, WHICH WILL BE KNOWN AS CALCUTTA HOUSE, WILL BE THE FIRST NONPROFIT HOSPICE HOUSE DEDICATED TO PATIENTS NEAR THE END OF LIFE WHOSE SYMPTOMS CAN’T BE MANAGED IN A HOME SETTING OR WHO DO NOT HAVE A HOME OR CAREGIVER.
The Army Corps of Engineers has refurbished the gates at a 52-year-old saltwater barrier in Louisiana, but tells recreational boaters that some work remains. It says that means it will have to close the Calcasieu Saltwater Barrier gates intermittently, sometimes causing backups for boaters in the Lake Charles area. A news release says the intermittent closures are expected to last until July 27. The barrier was built after the channel for the Port of Lake Charles was deepened in the early 1950s.
A ST. MARTINVILLE WOMAN HAS DIED FROM INJURIES SHE RECEIVED IN AN
A-T-V ACCIDENT SATURDAY NIGHT IN VERDUNVILLE. TWO WOMEN WERE ON THE A-T-V WHEN THEY HIT A CONCRETE CULVERT AND FLIPPED. THE TWO WERE AIRLIFTED TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL AND THIRTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD LAKEITHA HOPES, WHO WAS A PASSENGER ON THE A-T-V, LATER DIED. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
