Wednesday's report from the Louisiana Department of Health shows the biggest single-day increase in reported COVID-19 cases since May 1 but, once again, that's not cause for alarm.
The health department said 317 of the 612 new cases came from labs reporting their test results for the first time. That leaves 295 new cases reported from the usual sources.
This also happened on May 1, when reports from labs new to reporting to the state bumped the total number of new cases that day to 710.
Accounting for just the cases reported by the usual sources, the growth rate is .92 percent. Including the cases from the newly reporting labs, the growth rate is 1.91 percent.
In all, there are now 32,662 known cases of COVID-19 in Louisiana. There are 6,833 in Jefferson Parish, 6,753 in Orleans Parish and 2,487 in East Baton Rouge Parish.
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