BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. John Bel Edwards will update the public on Louisiana's response to the coronavirus today at 2:30 p.m.
WWL-TV will carry the press conference live on the WWLTV App and WWLTV.com in this story.
The average number of new confirmed cases per day has fallen by more than 50% over the past 14 days.
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 also has significantly declined. But elementary and secondary schools started opening this month, and move-in days have begun at Louisiana’s universities.
Gov. Edwards is urging Louisiana's college students to take precautions against the coronavirus outbreak as they return to campus.
He's worried the schools could undercut recent progress Louisiana has made in battling the pandemic.
As predicted when the Louisiana Department of Health added public schools to the COVID-19 outbreak watch-list last week, the number of outbreaks and cases are slowly rising. There have been five outbreaks connected to schools and 26 cases, as of Wednesday.
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