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LDH: August 2nd Louisiana COVID-19 UPDATE
The Louisiana Department of Health has issued its daily update for Sunday, August 2nd.
There have been 119,747 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Louisiana. That's 3,467 more reported cases since Friday.
Numbers show that there are 1,534 reported COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized. That's down 12 since Friday.
221 patients are on ventilators across the state. That's 1 fewer than were reported Friday.
The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 3893. That is 58 more reported deaths since Friday.
As of today, 74,246 COVID-19 patients are presumed to have recovered. That's 12,790 presumed recovered patients since the last report released last week.
The total number of coronavirus cases that have been in the Acadiana region is 18,111 with 405 total deaths reported.
Lafayette Parish: 6,350 total cases, 86 total deaths
(Up 195 reported cases since Friday, Up 2 reported deaths since Friday)
Iberia Parish: 2,218 total cases, 63 total deaths
(Up 58 reported cases since Friday, Up 1 reported death since Friday)
St. Martin Parish: 1,501 total cases, 42 total deaths
(Up 33 reported cases since Friday, Up 0 reported deaths since Friday)
St. Mary Parish: 1434 total cases, 49 total deaths
(Up 53 reported new cases since Friday, Up 1 reported death since Friday)
St. Landry Parish: 2,183 total cases, 74 total deaths
(Up 101 reported cases since Friday, Up 2 new reported deaths since Friday)
Acadia Parish: 2,380 total cases, 72 total deaths
(Up 49 reported cases since Friday, Up 1 reported death since Friday)
Evangeline Parish: 720 total cases, 2 total deaths
(Up 21 reported cases since Friday, No new reported deaths since Friday)
Vermilion Parish: 1,325 total cases, 17 total deaths
(Up 101 reported cases since Friday, Up 1 reported death since Friday)
The numbers are updated and released every day except Saturdays at noon.
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