A few weeks from now Louisiana will begin borrowing money from the feds to pay out unemployment benefits. Brooke Thorington has the story.
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The Louisiana Health Department reported another 77 COVID-19 deaths over the weekend to bring the state’s death toll to 4,384. The state also reported another 12-hundred coronavirus cases. COVID-19 patients in the hospital continued to fall. It dropped by another 47 over the weekend to just under 12-hundred.

Based on the latest data, the number of new COVID-19 cases is on the decline after the state experienced a second surge in June and July. So why did Louisiana experience a second surge? State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry says some of those that tested negative in the spring may have relaxed on their spread mitigation efforts
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The state revenue department says 240-thousand people have applied for the 250-dollar hazard pay check that’s available to workers who were forced to work during the governor’s stay at home order. But Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson says they’ve had problems verifying workers’ information on many of the applications…
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