Governor Edwards says if you get a call from a number that reads 877-766-2130, it’s a contact tracer. Edwards says it’s important you answer the contact tracer’s questions because they will inform you that a person you’ve been in contact with has tested positive for the coronavirus. He says it’s been used in Louisiana before…
The state previously had 70 contact tracers employed, but they’ve just trained about 300 more.
Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser calls on Louisianans to kick start the tourism economy by making 2020 the “Year of the Louisiana Road Trip”. Nungesser says tourism dollars saved every Louisianan 1,100 dollars in taxes last year, and if Louisianans can prove you can safely tour the state more out of state visitors will return.
The National Federation of Independent Business indicates optimism as Louisiana begins phase one of the economic reopening. However, spas, massage and tattoo parlors are not allowed to open under the phase one guidelines. NFIB state director Dawn Starns says bars that do not serve food are also shuttered…
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Many of Louisiana’s 450,000 small businesses are struggling to make rent amid the COVID-driven economic crisis. Beau Box Commercial Real Estate New Orleans VP Cress Gardner says the divide between which sectors are and are not having trouble paying rent is significant.