Chef Isaac Toups, left, hands out cold beers to service and entertainment industry employees who have been laid off due to the new coronavirus pandemic, at his restaurant Toups Meatery in New Orleans, Friday, March 27, 2020. Toups has been cooking up meals for those laid off. While rich in history and culture, New Orleans is economically poor, and the people here are not necessarily well-positioned to weather this latest storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
March 27, 2020
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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.