The number of COVID-19 cases in the parish continues to creep upward.  There are now 38 confirmed cases, up two from last week.  There have been six deaths attributed to the virus.

The Louisiana Department of Health has updated its website to reflect the latest number of COVID-19 positives and will continue to update its website at noon each day.  There have been 33,489 cases reported of which 22,608 are presumed to have recovered.  There have been 2,351 deaths attributed to COVID-19.

Thursday, the Department reported 827 new cases, of which 609 came from labs that are new to reporting. These labs previously have not reported and are now reporting all their historic lab results electronically. 

This means 218 of the 827 new cases came from the rest of the regular reporting across the state. 

Demographic breakdown on COVID-19 deaths indicated 56.07% were Black and 41.21% were White. 54.46% were male and 45.02% female.  As for underlying conditions in the death rate, Hypertension leads with 5342%, Diabetes33.14%, while Cardiac Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease and Obesity each had about 18%.

Nursing homes and other adult residential facilities

COVID-19 cases have been reported by 197 nursing homes and 77 other adult residential facilities in Louisiana. A total of 3,840 COVID-19 cases have been reported among residents of nursing homes, and a total of 501 COVID-19 cases have been reported among residents of other adult residential facilities. A total of 863 COVID-19 deaths have been reported among residents of nursing homes, and 58 COVID-19 deaths have been reported among residents of other adult residential facilities. There are 279 licensed and certified nursing homes and 157 adult residential care providers in Louisiana.
The Department will update the number of adult residential facilities with COVID-19 cases, the number of residents who are confirmed to have COVID-19 and the number of deaths among these residents on Mondays and Wednesdays.