The sales tax holiday in Louisiana is underway, today and tomorrow, the first 25-hundred on most purchases are exempted from the 4.45-percent state sales tax. NFIB State Director Dawn Starns says the legislature’s decision to bring the holiday back to assist residents and business owners recovering from hurricanes and the pandemic is vital.

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Governor Edwards is urging residents not to plan a large holiday party. Edwards says gatherings for Thanksgiving should be small, with only members of your immediate household. The governor says an extended family dinner with nine people in the Shreveport-Bossier area led to tragedy as one of the attendees had COVID.

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As COVID cases increase so are hospitalizations and Baton Rouge physician is urging the public to take the pandemic seriously. Brooke Thorington has more.

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The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has decided to not allow family visits during the week of Thanksgiving due to rising COVID-19 cases across the state and in its prison system.  Infection rates of COVID-19 have been lower across Louisiana’s prison system in recent weeks, but the DOC decided it was safer to not allow visitors at this time.