A resident of the Lambeth House, where a cluster of the coronavirus has formed, reacts from her balcony as opera singers Irini Hymel and Bryan Hymel sing to the quarantined residents in New Orleans, Friday, March 20, 2020. The home has 23 known cases of the coronavirus as of late Wednesday. At least five of about 260 residents have died from the virus within a week. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
March 23, 2020
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Edwards calls on Louisiana to follow 'stay at home' order
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards called on Louisiana residents in a statewide TV address Monday to comply with his “stay at home” order, as the number of state residents confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus spiked to nearly 1,200 people, and the virus's death toll in the state grew dramatically overnight.