BATON ROUGE, La. (KTVE/KARD)— The Louisiana Department of Health reported 337 new cases and 9 new deaths on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, bringing the total number of cases to 769,051 and the total number of deaths to 14,777.
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As stated on the LDH website, the new case increase may not match the difference between today’s total cases and the previous update because of the daily removal of newly identified duplicates and out-of-state cases.
Hospitalizations remained the same and the number of patients on ventilators decreased by 3 as of Wednesday; coming to a total of 194 hospitalized patients with 33 on ventilators.
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In our area, 71 new cases and 2 new deaths were reported on Wednesday. Ouachita Parish is still reporting the most cases and deaths in our area with 32,081 total confirmed cases and 597 total confirmed deaths.
Here is a list of local parishes reporting confirmed cases and deaths:
- Ouachita Parish – 32,081 cases, 597 deaths (38 new cases and 1 new death)
- Lincoln Parish – 7,214 cases, 117 deaths (5 new cases)
- Morehouse Parish – 4,529 cases, 116 deaths (2 new cases)
- Franklin Parish – 4,768 cases, 140 deaths (4 new cases)
- Union Parish –4,135 cases, 107 deaths (6 new cases)
- Richland Parish – 4,369 cases, 79 deaths (1 new case)
- Concordia Parish –3,249 cases, 79 deaths (0 new cases)
- Jackson Parish –2,811 cases, 64 deaths (0 new cases)
- Madison Parish –2,267 cases, 53 deaths (0 new cases)
- Winn Parish –2,652 cases, 58 deaths (1 new case)
- West Carroll Parish –2,094 cases, 51 deaths (6 new cases)
- La Salle Parish –2,781 cases, 46 deaths (1 new case)
- Catahoula Parish –1,789 cases, 48 deaths (1 new case)
- East Carroll Parish –1,647 cases, 31 deaths (1 new case)
- Caldwell Parish – 2,299 cases, 39 deaths (5 new cases)
- Tensas Parish –537 cases, 10 deaths (0 new cases)