Louisiana returns to Phase 3 coronavirus restrictions today which means restaurants can return to 75-percent capacity and capacity limits on places of worship have been lifted. Louisiana bars can also reopen indoors. Louisiana Association of Business and Industry President Stephen Waguespack says the announcement is encouraging and he hopes the vaccination rollout continues to ramp up…
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Under the phase three order, live music can return to indoor locations, but they’ll have to follow a list of requirements put together by the State Fire Marshal’s office. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says venues must have six air exchanges per hour to qualify…
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And No dance floors are allowed. New Orleans remains in modified phase two for a little while longer.

The New Orleans and Baton Rouge Archdiocese are advising Catholics not to take the Johnson and Johnson vaccine due to its use of abortion-derived cells in the manufacturing process. Governor John Bel Edwards, a practicing Catholic, says Louisianans should take whatever vaccine they are first offered.
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Edwards says he looked at documents from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Vatican sources before coming to the conclusion that Catholics should take the J&J vaccine.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says he can not support the COVID relief bill approved in the House because it funds projects that have nothing to do with the virus, like a subway system in San Francisco and a bridge in upstate New York. He says the COVID relief bill could force the nation into a state of inflation…
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