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Louisiana reports 119 dead from Covid-19
Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards has just concluded his daily press briefing and reported the state’s largest day-on-day death toll increase.

119 people have now died from Covid-19, an increase of 39 in 24 hours.

There are 2,746 cases of the virus in the state, 441 more than yesterday, marking a 19% increase. This is not the sharpest increase in confirmed cases of the virus in the state, but the governor adds that there was less testing yesterday than the day before.

“We are doing everything within our power to respond to this crisis,” Edwards said. “We remain on the growth curve, the trajectory that we don’t like.”

The state is still on track to reach hospital capacity by the first week of April. “[The] trajectory suggests won’t be able to cope,” Edwards said.

In an indication of the scale of the crisis and the difficulty the state is facing, Edwards says he has requested 12,000 additional ventilators, 5,000 from the national stockpile and the rest from the private sector. He has received just 192.

The state requested federal assistance to create four, 250 bed new hospital units. It was approved for half of those.

Edwards say that to date no state inmates have tested positive for Covid-19. Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration anywhere in the United States.
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