“If you wait for these numbers to grab your attention, guess what? You just let the virus win,” a visibly distressed Governor John Bel Edwards reiterated of Louisiana’s new Coronavirus cases at a Thursday afternoon press conference. State COVID-19 cases soared Thursday to a one-day record of 2,726 new cases as a tidal wave of test results arrived mostly from private testing companies.
Coronavirus numbers were up again Wednesday in Louisiana by 1,187 additional cases over a 24-hour period. Louisiana Department of Health reports a moderation in the death rate, posting 34 more deaths when 54 Louisianans had died the day before. LDH reports 6,424 Louisianans have the Coronavirus of which nearly 1,500 have been admitted to hospitals. Nearly 500 are on ventilators and hospital officials say they are running out of the machines. Ventilators enable patients to cut recovery times by up to 75%.
The Rayville Police Department made the following arrests for the week of March 8-20.
• Willie Ellis, 42; 418 Pine St., Rayville; simple battery.
• Alexa Wyatt, 26, 75 Kny Road, Delhi; loitering and simple possession of synthetic marijuana.
• Hunter Goutreaux, 19; 38722 Redbud Lane, Denham Springs; simple possession of Schedule I, possession of Schedule II and simple possession of Schedule IV.
• Courtney Armstrong, 33; 501 Martin Luther King Drive, Rayville; shoplifting.
603 Louisa Street
Rayville, LA 71269
Phone: (318) 728-6467
Fax: (318) 728-5991