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Louisiana Sees Another Spike In New COVID-19 Cases As Labs Report For The First Time

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Ashley Dean
Published May 13, 2020 at 12:34 PM CDT
A drive through COVID-19 testing location at Alario Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd, Westwego. Operated by the Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Department. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 8, 2020.
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A drive through COVID-19 testing location at Alario Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd, Westwego. Operated by the Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Department. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 8, 2020.

Wednesday's report from the Louisiana Department of Health shows the biggest single-day increase in reported COVID-19 cases since May 1 but, once again, that's not cause for alarm.

The health department said 317 of the 612 new cases came from labs reporting their test results for the first time. That leaves 295 new cases reported from the usual sources.

This also happened on May 1, when reports from labs new to reporting to the state bumped the total number of new cases that day to 710.

Accounting for just the cases reported by the usual sources, the growth rate is .92 percent. Including the cases from the newly reporting labs, the growth rate is 1.91 percent.

In all, there are now 32,662 known cases of COVID-19 in Louisiana. There are 6,833 in Jefferson Parish, 6,753 in Orleans Parish and 2,487 in East Baton Rouge Parish.

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Ashley Dean
Ashley Dean is the digital news editor for New Orleans Public Radio. Before coming to New Orleans, she was the editor of Denverite, a digital news startup now under the Colorado Public Radio umbrella. Prior to that she was a copy editor and features writer at the Denver Post, and before that, a music reporter for the Colorado Daily. She graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in journalism and from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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