New Orleans moving to Phase 3 Friday; businesses allowed to operate at 75%
New Orleans moving to Phase 3 Friday By Mykal Vincent | March 9, 2021 at 5:36 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 8:13 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced Wednesday that the city will move to a modified Phase 3 on Friday, March 12.
Cantrell said at a news conference that the city’s positivity rate is currently 1.5 percent and nearly 21 percent of Orleans Parish has received at least a first vaccine dose.
Restaurants and businesses will be allowed to operate at 75 percent capacity.
Gatherings will be limited to 75 people indoors and 150 outdoors.
New Orleans moving to Phase 3 Friday; businesses allowed to operate at 75% Orleans Parish bars were allowed to resume indoor service at 25% capacity after the Mardi Gras holiday and the subsequent drop in COVID positivity rates. (Source: WVUE) By Mykal Vincent | March 9, 2021 at 5:36 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 8:13 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced Wednesday that the city will move to a modified Phase 3 on Friday, March 12.
Cantrell said at a news conference that the city’s positivity rate is currently 1.5 percent and nearly 21 percent of Orleans Parish has received at least a first vaccine dose.
Archdiocese calls J&J vaccine âmorally corruptâ for use of abortion cells By FOX 8 Staff | March 1, 2021 at 4:06 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 1:15 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Archdiocese of New Orleans is encouraging Catholics to consider choosing other coronavirus vaccines over the shot manufactured by Johnson and Johnson due to the use of cells derived from abortions.
The church
issued a statement on Fri., Feb. 26, calling the Johnson and Johnson single-dose vaccine âmorally compromised, as it uses the abortion-derived cell line in development and production of the vaccine as well as the testing.â
The Pfizer and Moderna shots âcan be morally acceptable for Catholics as the connection to abortion is extremely remote,â the statement said.
Republic NOLA ordered to shutdown; added to growing list of non-compliant businesses Republic NOLA (Source: Google Maps) By Mykal Vincent | March 1, 2021 at 7:17 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 6:07 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Republic NOLA has been ordered to shut down immediately by New Orleans COVID-19 task force members.
According to the Director of Code Enforcement, more than 250 people were inside the establishment on Sun., Feb. 28 at around 12:15 a.m., most people “reportedly failed to wear facial coverings,” and bartenders were serving alcohol past the 11 p.m. curfew.
Modified Phase Two guidelines went into effect at 6 a.m. on Fri., Feb. 26. Under the new eased guidelines, indoor gathering sizes have increased to 75 people and outdoor gatherings have increased to 150 people with limits at tables now up to 15.