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BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health on Thursday verifies three additional deaths tied to Hurricane Laura, bringing the state’s current death toll to 20.

A 65-year-old man and a 50-year-old man died due to medical conditions exacerbated by excessive heat following the loss of electricity. Both deaths were in Rapides Parish. A 70-year-old male in Calcasieu Parish died due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator.

In the couple of days that followed Hurricane Laura, the city of Abbeville had power fully restored.
Nearly a week after the storm, strains began to take a toll on the city’s electrical system. It is an issue that is causing some areas of the city to see outages.

LAFAYETTE — The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will report positive COVID-19 cases via a public dashboard that launched Wednesday.
The dashboard can be accessed here. It will be updated by 5 p.m. daily to reflect positive, documented cases confirmed the previous day. Cases reported between Friday and Sunday will be posted on the following Monday.
UL Lafayette created the dashboard “in the interest of transparency and accuracy,” said Dr. Jaimie Hebert, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.