LSUE will receive $2 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Chancellor Nancee Sorenson announced the funding at a meeting called by state Rep. Phillip DeVillier at LSUE on Wednesday.
The death toll in St. Landry Parish from COVID-19 rose to 34 in Friday’s update from the Louisiana Department of Health.
The parish has had 157 confirmed cases.
About 50 leaders from St. Landry, Acadia and Evangeline parishes met Wednesday to discuss reopening the economy after nearly five weeks of a partial shutdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced
Harvard University researchers and epidemiologists are at it again, warning this time that America is nowhere close to having a true picture of the Coronavirus outbreak. Other research and civic groups are beginning to agree.
A number of metrics are being examined by experts to determine how successful, or unsuccessful, the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been thus far.
As small businesses go, NewAperio has weathered the COVID-19 recession pretty well.
The Louisiana Department of Health on Monday began posting an interactive map of COVID-19 cases by census tract.
The map is part of the department’s dashboard of COVID-19 data at ldh.la.gov/coronavirus/
There have been 29 deaths from COVID-19 in St. Landry Parish as of the noon Wednesday report on the Louisiana Department of Health’s website, ldh.la.gov/coronavirus.
There have been 140 cases in St. Landry Parish.
Harvard University researchers and epidemiolo