61 new COVID cases, one death in three parishes Thursday

Sixty-one positive tests for COVID-19 were reported Thursday for St. Mary, St. Martin and Assumption parishes, according to the Louisiana Office of Public Health midday report. One new death was reported in Assumption.

In St. Mary, 32 new COVID cases raised the total since the pandemic began to 664.

In St. Martin, 24 new cases make the total 939.

And in Assumption, five new cases raised the total to 404.

The one newly reported death in Assumption raises the death toll there to 16. Thirty-nine St. Mary people have died, and 27 St. Martin people have died.

Statewide:

--1,843 new COVID cases make the pandemic total 71,994.

--16 new deaths raise the toll to 3,247.

--The number of people in hospitals for COVID treatment grew by 25 to 1,042.

--The number of people on ventilators grew by five to 110.