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A sign indicating an arrival area for ambulances is seen outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, part of which is being converted into a hospital due to the new coronavirus epidemic, in New Orleans, Friday, March 27, 2020. Officials are standing up what could be the largest hospital in the country, said Joseph Kanter, assistant state health officer at the Louisiana Department of Health. It will be built in the convention center, a sprawling facility along the Mississippi River that is generally packed with a revolving parade of conventions and conferences but is currently closed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A sign indicating an arrival area for ambulances is seen outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, part of which is being converted into a hospital due to the new coronavirus epidemic, in New Orleans, Friday, March 27, 2020. Officials are standing up what could be the largest hospital in the country, said Joseph Kanter, assistant state health officer at the Louisiana Department of Health. It will be built in the convention center, a sprawling facility along the Mississ…

March 27, 2020

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Coronavirus reaches 2 Louisiana prisons as cases increase
March 27, 2020 10:22 p.m.

Coronavirus reaches 2 Louisiana prisons as cases increase

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two workers at Louisiana state prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing some inmates into quarantine and heightening concerns that the tightly packed populations are at risk for an outbreak in a state where the virus's death toll exceeded 100 Friday.