Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards looks at a monitor displaying the state's evolving novel coronavirus COVID-19 situation, at the start of a press conference, Friday, March 27, 2020 at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management in Baton Rouge, La. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
March 30, 2020
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March 30, 2020 1:49 p.m.
Louisiana's coronavirus death toll jumps by 34 overnight
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The number of Louisiana residents dead from the COVID-19 disease jumped significantly higher Monday, in one of the state's largest spikes in the death toll since recording its first coronavirus case in early March.