BATON ROUGE, La. (KTVE/KARD)— The Louisiana Department of Health reported 535 new cases and 31 new deaths on Monday, March 7, 2022, bringing the total number of cases to 1,228,580 and the total number of deaths to 16,785.
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 decreased by 74 and the number of patients on ventilators decreased by 15 as of Monday; coming to a total of 294 hospitalized patients with 26 on ventilators.