7-30-20
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN TOOK A MAJOR JUMP IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. THEY SAY THERE ARE SIXTY-NINE ADDITIONAL DEATHS STATEWIDE. ON THE OTHER HAND, HOSPITALIZATIONS WENT DOWN FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, WITH THIRTY-NINE FEWER. THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS INCREASED BY SEVEN. THERE WERE ONE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE MORE CASES AS THE TOTAL MOVED TO ONE HUNDRED TWELVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE.
ACADIANA HAD SEVENTEEN MORE DEATHS. ACADIA AND ST. MARY PARISHES HAD FIVE EACH, THERE WERE THREE IN ST. MARTIN PARISH, IBERIA PARISH HAD TWO WHILE LAFAYETTE AND ST. LANDRY PARISHES EACH HAD ONE. THERE WERE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO MORE POSITIVE COVID-NINETEEN CASES. THAT MOVES THE TOTAL PAST SEVENTEEN THOUSAND.
THERE WERE TEN MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. NINE WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH WHILE THE OTHER ONE WAS IN ALLEN PARISH. THE TOTAL IS ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE MORE CASES. THE TOTAL IS EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE.
CROWLEY MAYOR TIM MONCEAUX ANNOUNCED HE HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO A HOSPITAL FOR COVID-NINETEEN AFTER CONTRACTING THE VIRUS LAST WEEK. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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More than a dozen unions and other groups say unemployed workers will demonstrate at U.S. senators’ offices in nine Louisiana cities to demand continued $600 federal unemployment benefits. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy support Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposal to move to $200 a week for people out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A news release says, “That would sever a critical lifeline at a time when coronavirus cases are spiking, businesses continue to face mass closures, and whole industries have been decimated.” Demonstrations are scheduled today in Lake Charles, Lafayette, and seven other cities.
A TOWN HALL MEETING BY LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY WAS DISRUPTED FOR MORE THAN TWENTY MINUTES BY PROTESTERS WHO ARE SEEKING TO STOP HIS ORDER TO CLOSE FOUR NORTH LAFAYETTE REC CENTERS ON AUGUST FOURTEENTH. AS THE PROTEST PROGRESSED, GUILLORY ASKED INTERIM POLICE CHIEF SCOTT MORGAN TO REMOVE THE PROTESTERS, WHICH HAPPENED WITHOUT INCIDENT. GUILLORY ORDERED THE CLOSURE OF FOUR CENTERS AND THE LAYING OFF OF THIRTY-SEVEN EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THE CITY IS LOSING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SALES TAX INCOME AS A RESULT OF THE EFFECTS OF COVID-NINETEEN ON THE ECONOMY. THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER SAYS THAT, TOWARDS THE END OF THE TOWN HALL MEETING, GUILLORY SAID HE WOULD FIND A WAY TO KEEP THE FOUR CENTERS OPEN, INCLUDING LOOKING AT PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
THE WIFE OF DOUBLE HOMOCIDE SUSPECT NEIL BROUSSARD WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAYAND CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER. TORI BROUSSARD IS CHIEF INVESTIGATOR WITH THE CALCASIEU PARISH PUBLIC DEFENDERS OFFICE. NEIL BROUSSARD IS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AND KILLING SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD KYLA HIDALGO AND 18-YEAR-OLD KALEB CHARLTON AT AROUND FOUR A-M ON JULY FIFTEENTH. HE ALSO ALLEGEDLY SHOT HIDALGO’S MOTHER MULTIPLE TIMES.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST. LANDRY PARISH N-DOUBLE-A-C-P HAS SENT A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ASKING THEM TO NOT REOPEN SCHOOL THIS FALL UNTIL THE COVID-NINETEEN PANDEMIC IS UNDER CONTROL. REVEREND FRANK FORD CITED HIS EXPERIENCES AS A PASTOR AND THE OWNER OF A FUNERAL HOME IN MAKING HIS RECOMMENDATION. HE ASKED THAT THE CHILDREN NOT BE EXPOSED TO THE CORONAVIRUS. HE CLAIMS IN THE LETTER THAT, BY REOPENING SCHOOLS AND SOCIALIZING IN LARGE GROUPS, THE COVID-NINETEEN WILL NOT GO AWAY.
