LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- As of Thursday, April 2 , 2020, nice deaths have been confirmed in Acadiana. The cases are in Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Landry, Iberia, Acadia and Vermilion parishes. The state Department of Health and Hospitals will continue to update state and parish-by-parish statistics at 12 p.m. each day. Wednesday April 1, 2020, […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Tuesday March 30, 2020- A second corinavirus-related death in Lafayette was confirmed by officials on Tuesday. One death related to COVID-19 has been confirmed in St. Landry Parish on March 31. UPDATE: Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory said one death has been confirmed in the 44 COVID-19 cases in the parish. On Saturday […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- UPDATE: Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory said one death has been confirmed in the 44 COVID-19 cases in the parish. ORIGINAL: St. Martin Parish officials announced Friday that three people have died from COVID-19. The state Department of Health confirmed one death in Acadia Parish. St. Martin Parish President Chester Cedars confirmed the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS News) — In a letter to the nation’s governors on Thursday, President Trump said his administration is working on new guidelines to help state and local policymakers determine whether they should maintain, increase or relax social distancing measures they’ve put in place to mitigate the fallout from the coronavirus. On March 16, the White House issued guidelines about […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As the number of known coronavirus cases in Louisiana jumped 28% overnight, Gov. John Bel Edwards starkly warned residents Thursday to stay home, saying the state has edged into a tie for the second-highest rate of virus cases per capita. President Donald Trump agreed to set up federal field hospitals in Louisiana and […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Suzette Russo teaches sewing at Top Stitch Sewing School. The school was forced it shut its doors recently because of the coronavirus, so when her son, a physician in Bogalusa, asked her to make masks for his medical staff, she jumped at the opportunity to put her skills to work. “I […]
Doctors and nurses everywhere have dealt with the brunt of the pandemic. A traveling nurse from Arkansas shares her story working in Iberia Parish, while the Coronavirus is spreading throughout Louisiana. News 10’s Mark Rigsby spoke with Hileigh Richeson earlier this week.
MELVILLE, La. (KLFY)- The Melville police department and the town’s mayor are not seeing eye to eye on a community program. Mayor Velma Hendrix is pushing for the town’s monthly food drive but Melville Police Chief Anthony Moreau says it would be a violation of the governor’s orders to mitigate the spread of the corovirus […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — Two employees at two different state prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus, but there are still no confirmed cases in the state’s prison population as of yet. According to a Department of Corrections (DOC) press release, both employees were notified of positive COVID-19 results over the weekend and are […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– Con la pandemia del coronavirus y los casos creciendo cada dia en el país entero, el gobierno de la ciudad de Lafayette y Lafayette Parish está tomando precauciones e implementando reglas para combatir el virus. Información importante El gobernador de Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, ha ordenado que los residentes del estado permanezcan […]