Avoyelles has no new COVID cases in 553 tests in Tuesday update
Tue, 03/16/2021 - 12:27pm
It is still too soon to pop the champagne and declare victory, but Tuesday's COVID update for Avoyelles Parish was another very bright spot in a year-long darkness.
With 553 test results -- 552 of them the highly regarded molecular lab tests -- there were no new cases. None. Zero.
As of Tuesday, the parish's pandemic totals were 3,971 cases (3,481/490) and 119 deaths (111/8). The state's totals were 438,557 cases and 9,925 deaths for the past 12 months of the pandemic.