BATON ROUGE, La. (KTVE/KARD)— The Louisiana Department of Health reported 275 new cases and 6 new deaths on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, bringing the total number of cases to 1,234,146 and the total number of deaths to 17,191.
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 increased by 3 and the number of patients on ventilators increased by 2 as of Wednesday; coming to a total of 63 hospitalized patients with 7 on ventilators.