COVID-19

The St. Landry Parish nightly curfew expired at 6 a.m. Friday.
The parish-wide curfew was put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with the governor’s stay-at-home order that has also expired.
The parish government will begin reopening face-to-face operations in many of its offices next week. Masks will be required on entry into parish buildings, and temperature checks will be conducted.
Parish buildings will still enforce limited access and strict social distancing standards as part of the state’s Phase 1 reopening.

The death toll from Covid-19 in St. Landry Parish stood at 51 in the noon Louisiana Department of Health report on the virus.
St. Landry Parish’s cases had reached 244 with 254 state tests and 3,280 commercial tests.
In the state, there have been culmulative 33,837 cases reported with 2,382 deaths. There were 1,091 people in hospitals and 132 of those were on ventilators. There were 66 probable deaths from the coronavirus.
The Department counts 11,114 tests at the state lab and 242,075 at commercial labs.

Most people think of the Louisiana Fire Marshal's Office when it comes to fighting fires and rescuing burn victims from within an inferno, but Louisiana's Fire Marshal Butch Browning is today at the forefront of keeping COVID-19 from spreading like wildfire.