BATON ROUGE – On Friday afternoon, Governor Edwards spoke at the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force meeting.
As of Friday, August 21, there were 141,720 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Louisiana, with 4,546 deaths.
Watch: Gov. Edwards speaks at the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force meeting
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards holds up his own mask, taken off while he was speaking, to remind Louisiana residents that a highly effective thing within their power to do to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is to simply wear a mask, Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at a press conference update on the state's COVID-19 situation at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Baton Rouge, La. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP, Pool)