New Orleans has change into the epicenter of Louisiana’s outbreak, in response to Governor John Bel Edwards, who mentioned there are constructive coronavirus circumstances in 56 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes, the equal of a state county.

Louisiana’s largest metropolis will run out of ventilators by April four and hospital beds by April 10 in response to the present trajectory of the virus, the governor mentioned Sunday

“Ventilators are the short-term, really big pressing issue we’re trying to solve for,” he mentioned. “Really difficult because every state is looking for these. There are only so many to be had.”