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9-17-20

ACADIA PARISH HAS OFFICIALLY FALLEN UNDER FIVE PERCENT POSITIVITY FOR COVID-NINETEEN FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS.  THAT MEANS THE PARISH IS ELIGIBLE TO REOPEN BARS UNDER THE GOVERNOR’S PHASE THREE RULES.  THE POLICE JURY MUST OFFICIALLY OPT-IN BEFORE THEY CAN REOPEN, BUT THEY MUST CLOSE AGAIN IF THE PARISH’ POSITIVITY RATE RISES ABOVE TEN PERCENT FOR A TWO WEEK PERIOD.  JEFF DAVIS PARISH AND ST. LANDRY PARISH ARE ALSO BELOW FIVE PERCENT POSITIVITY.

 

HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN IN LOUISIANA FROM COVID-NINETEEN AFTER A COUPLE DAYS IN A ROW OF IT GOING UP.  THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTS THAT THERE ARE FIFTEEN FEWER PATIENTS IN THE STATE, AND ONE FEWER ON A VENTILATOR.  THERE ARE SEVENTEEN MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE.  THE TOTAL OF COVID-NINETEEN CASES HAVE SURPASSED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND, WITH FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT NEW CASES ADDED TODAY.

 

ACADIANA HAD NO NEW DEATHS IN TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE TOTAL REMAINS AT SIX HUNDRED FORTY-SIX.  THERE ARE FORTY-FIVE MORE CASES FOR ACADIANA.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAD THE MOST WITH NINETEEN.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED FIFTY-FIVE MORE COVID-NINETEEN CASES.  ALMOST ALL OF THEM, FIFTY-THREE, WERE FROM CALCASIEU PARISH.  THE TOTAL HAS SURPASSED ELEVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED.  THERE ARE TWO ADDITIONAL DEATHS IN THE REGION.  THEY WERE FROM CALCASIEU AND CAMERON PARISHES.

 

NO COST COVID-NINETEEN TESTING IS HAPPENING TODAY IN NEW IBERIA.  CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.

 

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A federal judge says Louisiana must reinstate coronavirus pandemic voting plans used for summer elections rather than using a more restrictive plan approved by the Legislature. U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly Dick says the state must allow mail voting for people with conditions that make COVID-19 more dangerous, and their caretakers. She also ordered expansion of early voting from seven days to 10 in November, but not in December. During his monthly call-in radio show, Gov. John Bel Edwards says the opinion boils down to simply doing what the state did in July and August.”

 

THE LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT IS STEPPING UP MOSQUITO ABATEMENT EFFORTS FOLLOWING HURRICANE LAURA.  RESIDENTS THAT NOTICE A HEAVY MOSQUITO POPULATION IN THEIR AREA CAN USE THE LAFAYETTE 3-1-1 PORTAL TO REQUEST SERVICE.  YOU CAN DO IT BY CALLING THREE-ONE-ONE OR BY GOING ONLINE TO THREE-ONE-ONE-LAFAYETTE-DOT-SERVICES.  ALL REQUESTS ARE SENT TO MOSQUITO CONTROL SERVICES, WHICH IS THE MOSQUITO CONTROL CONTRACTOR FOR LAFAYETTE PARISH.

 

THE LAKE CHARLES SCHOOL SYSTEM SUFFERED ROUGHLY THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS OF DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE LAURA, ACCORDING TO SUPERINTENDENT KARL BRUCHAUS, WHO SPOKE YESTERDAY TO THE SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE DURING A PUBLIC HEARING.  HE SAYS THAT COMPARES TO TWENTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS OF DAMAGE FROM HURRICANE RITA IN 2005.  HE SAYS SEVENTY-FOUR OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S SEVENTY-SIX BUILDINGS SUFFERED DAMAGE, INCLUDING FIFTEEN WHICH EXPERIENCED HEAVY DISRUPTIONS, SUCH AS THE LOSS OF A ROOF.  MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT DARYL BURKEL TOLD THE COMMITTEE THAT THE UNIVERSITY SUSTAINED UP TO TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE INCLUDING FIFTY BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS THAT LOST ROOFS.