Restaurants, churches, gyms, casinos, hair salons and other nonessential businesses closed by the stay at home order will be allowed to reopen at 25 percent capacity starting on Friday. Governor Edwards says Louisiana has done well in slowing down the spread of COVID–19, so it’s safe to loosen restrictions…
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Massage parlors, spas and tattoo parlors will remain closed. Also interior mall stores can only offer curbside services. National Federation of Independent Business State Director Dawn Starns says why can casinos re-open, but not spas…
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The governor will wait until June 1st before deciding if the state can move into phase two.

Louisana Attorney General Jeff Landry has joined an 18-state effort that’s asking Congress to investigate China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Landry says there are many questions that need to be answered…
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There’s speculation the coronavirus was engineered in a lab in China, but many scientists do not believe that’s the case.

At the grocery store you have probably noticed some empty shelves since COVID-19. LSU Ag Center Professor of Nutrition and Food Science Louise Wicker says before the outbreak more than 50 percent of the food Americans’ consumed was from restaurants.
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Wicker says there’s a greater demand for food for home consumption, the F-D-A has relaxed some of the nutritional labelling regulations to allow certain foods intended for the wholesale market to be sold in grocery stores.