Modified Phase 1 restrictions go into effect Friday Mayor Cantrell announces city to fall back to modified Phase 1 By Nicole Mumphrey | January 6, 2021 at 3:34 PM CST - Updated January 8 at 5:37 AM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced Wednesday that the city will fall back to a modified Phase 1. The announcement came as the COVID-positivity rate in Orleans Parish jumped to 10.4%. That’s up from 5.5 percent. Every #COVID19 measure we're watching is indicating major community outbreak in #NOLA: ��Positive test rate skyrocketed to over 10% in one week ��Daily new cases 7x higher than in fall months There have been more than 21,000 positive cases of Coronavirus and 685 deaths.