COVID cases slow, hospitalizations down, but 2 more deaths reported in St. Mary
Fri, 08/27/2021 - 4:10pm
The COVID-19 case count is growing more slowly, and Louisiana COVID hospitalizations continued to fall in Friday's Office of Public Health report for the previous 24 hours.
But the St. Mary COVID death toll continued to rise with two more fatalities reported Friday.
The two deaths raise St. Mary's pandemic toll to 187. Forty of those deaths have occurred since Aug. 1.
Twenty-eight new COVID cases were reported Friday for St. Mary, raising the pandemic count to 7,782.
Statewide, 3,428 new cases were reported Friday along with 61 deaths.
The number of COVID-19 patients in Louisiana hospitals dropped by 45 to 2,684 Friday. At their peak, hospitalizations exceeded 3,000.