Local officials from parish government and hospitals continue to sound the alarm regarding COVID numbers as this fourth surge has continued to ramp up.
Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. today regarding rising cases and hospitalizations.
Health officials with the Louisiana Department of Health say the fourth surge is being driven by the Delta variant. On Thursday, 1,620 patients were hospitalized statewide with COVID-19; a number the state has not seen since the beginning of the end of its third surge on the virus on Jan. 26 when 1,625 patients were hospitalized.
