LA reports another death overnight; new case in Terrebonne

Claude Philip Templet
March 17, 2020
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March 17, 2020
Claude Philip Templet
March 17, 2020
Thibodaux Police seeks help Identifying Theft Suspect
March 17, 2020

The Louisiana Department of Health has announced our state’s fourth death from COVID-19. The Orleans Parish resident was an 80-year-old individual who lived at Lambeth House in New Orleans.

 

Terrebonne parish is now reporting our third case. Lafourche is still reporting 2.

 

Louisiana now has 171 cases, up 35 from yesterday’s last report.


 

Washington parish is reporting their first case. Orleans Parish is now reporting 116 cases; Jefferson, 31; St. Tammany, 6; Caddo, 4; St. Charles, 3; St. Bernard, 2; Ascension, 1; Bossier, 1; St. John the Baptist, 1.

 

The state has completed 457 tests. That’s an increase of 83 tests from yesterday’s last figure.