The Louisiana House passes several proposals that would either eliminate Governor John Bel Edwards’ COVID-19 public health orders or give lawmakers more authority. Speaker Clay Schexnayder’s resolution to terminate the pandemic emergency declaration after the session ends won approval. Haughton Representative Doddie Horton…
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Supporters of the resolution say the Legislature would then have time to craft their own pandemic public health policy.
Governor Edwards says the current restrictions on bars are necessary to keep COVID-transmission low and save lives. Bars in parishes that can open can only serve until 11 PM, can only do table service, and are limited to 25 percent capacity. Only bars in parishes with lower than a five percent positivity rate on new COVID tests may open. Edwards says that’s because areas with higher rates just have too much community spread.
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About a third of parishes are still blocked from allowing bars to reopen.
Two are dead after a State Police trooper rear-ends a vehicle in Ouachita Parish. Jeff Palermo has the story…
The 2020 Census deadline has been extended to October 31st and census workers are hitting the streets to cover the remaining the 5% of Louisiana households that have not yet responded. Assistant regional census manager Marilyn Stephens says the greatest concentration of homes that have not responded to the census is in the northern portion of the state.