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A congregant in a church bus yells out to news media as they leave services at the Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La., Sunday, March 29, 2020. Pastor Tony Spell has defied a shelter-in-place order by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, due to the new coronavirus pandemic, and continues to hold church services with hundreds of congregants. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A congregant in a church bus yells out to news media as they leave services at the Life Tabernacle Church in Central, La., Sunday, March 29, 2020. Pastor Tony Spell has defied a shelter-in-place order by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, due to the new coronavirus pandemic, and continues to hold church services with hundreds of congregants. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

March 30, 2020

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Louisiana's coronavirus death toll jumps by 34 overnight
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.