Avoyelles has 17 new cases in Tuesday update

Avoyelles Parish had 17 new cases of COVID and no additional deaths in Tuesday's pandemic update from the state health department.

As of Tuesday, there had been 2,370 total cases (2,230 confirmed, 140 probable) and 76 deaths (73 confirmed and 3 probable) since the pandemic began in March.

The state totals are 272,276 cases and 6,895 deaths.