Responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. Governor edwards and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to rise. More drastically than we would like. As of today, we have 1388 cases. And 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we r
For being with me. We will be here to take any questions related to testing. I want to start by thanking all of the state and local first responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. And certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night, i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to r
Taking place across the state of louisiana and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government, so i directed that request for President Trump in order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus. And deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continue to rise more drastically than we would like. As of to date, we have 1,388 cases and 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we reported at noon yesterday and 12 more deaths since our report yesterday. I want to remind you that we are updating the numbers once a day now at noon. Because it just became too much to try to manage with all the various testing labs and reports that had to be coming
And at noon, live coverage of the senate where work continues on a third economic aid bill in response to the coronavirus pandem pandemic. But thank you all for coming out again this afternoon. I appreciate those of you who are here. Those of you who are watching online. Im joined today by secretary Markeeta Walters of the department of family and Children Services and also from the Louisiana Work force commission and following my remarks, they will deliver some prepared remarks as well. Im also joined today by dr. Al alex beeu to answer questions if thats necessary. Before i came out, i just learned about two new deaths weve had in louisiana because of the coronavirus. The total death count is now 10 in the state of louisiana. One of those most recent is a 44yearold Orleans Parish with underlying medical conditions and other a 90yearold resident. And obviously, these individual are in the most at risk category of our citizens because of age and Underlying Health conditions. So that ma
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