A total of 46 Louisiana residents have died after contracting COVID-19 and state health officials say they’ve documented 1,388 confirmed cases of the virus in the state.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 58 cases had been reported in East Baton Rouge Parish. EBR Parish Coroner, William “Beau” Clark reported that a woman who tested positive for novel coronavirus died Tuesday (March 24) morning.
Clark’s office issued a statement regarding her death Tuesday, explaining that the patient was a 52-year-old resident of Baton Rouge and went to an area hospital complaining of flu-like symptoms on March 15.
This patient’s passing brings the total of coronavirus-related deaths in the parish to three.
Iberville Parish has also reported that a woman from White Castle died Tuesday morning, she was in her 50’s. This marks the first COVID-19-related fatality in that parish.
On Monday, officials said a second cluster of virus cases were discovered in Chateau D’Ville, a rehabilitation and retirement home in Donaldsonville. Five cases were identified in that community Monday.
Tuesday, the state said it was investigating two other living facilities as being “clusters,” including St. James Place in Baton Rouge.
New patient statistics are released every day at noon. Check the embedded data in the middle of this story.
Monday, the EBR coroner revealed that a 90-year-old man from Mississippi died due to COVID-19 complications in Baton Rouge and that a 44-year-old local woman also passed away.
The man was from Woodville, Mississippi, and died on March 21. A health test returned a positive coronavirus result Monday, two days after his death. The 44-year-old local woman died Sunday after being hospitalized with complaints of shortness of breath. Lab testing also showed she was positive for COVID-19.
As expected, there are coronavirus patients from most capital-area parishes. More patients are also being diagnosed with COVID-19 as testing increases across the state.
The Department of Health said Tuesday that 271 people, nearly 20% of the people diagnosed with COVID-19, were hospitalized. Of those, 94 patients required ventilation.
The numbers only show the amount of patients hospitalized and do not indicate if those who are not in the care of doctors, and presumably self-isolating at home and away from people, have fully recovered. The state was pointed in its description of how to describe a recovered patient: “A person is considered recovered when it has been at least seven days after the onset of illness, AND at least three day after resolution of fever (without the use of fever-reducing medications) AND resolution or improvement in respiratory symptoms.”
Our Lady of the Lake, Baton Rouge General and Ochsner are treating patients.
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