ST. MARTIN PARISH 3 DEATHS

3 DEATHS CHILD SUPPORT

Parishes across acadiana are now starting to see their firs's deaths from covid 19...acadia and lafayette parishes have 1 death, and st.

Martin parish now has 3 in less than 24 hours...news 1's leigha mcneil spoke to residents who say its time to start heeding the warnings from government officials "you look at the bigger cities and you think tha's not gonna happen here in your little small area but i's happening everywhere."

With three confirmed covid-19 deaths in st.

Martin parish...floyd egland is growing more concerned with the coronavirus especially because he say more people outside of high risk individuals have died "in the beginning they said it was more of the elderly people but this thing is hitting everybody so maybe not as much of the young but i's still hitting everybody.""we do't want no more we just want the coronavirus to be gone."

9 year old jaylon petry tells me the coronavirus scares him...but he pushes his family to be safe"my mom i catch it my grandma my can catch it all my family my can catch it i do't want nobody to catch any more scientist are going to get it i do't want nobody to be sick or nothing."

Parish president chester cedars wants his community to start taking coronavirus seriously..."i fully recognize that a lot of people do't believe this is a real serious medical crisis."cedar says he plans to be stricter in enforcing the statewide stay at home mandate to keep everyone safe "from saint martin parish east perspective w're going to more vigorously propagate that message w're going to more vigorously tell people please stay home."we have to just buckle down and stay home" "stay home at 5 'clock stay home ...at 5 'clock do not go outside" in st martin parish leigha mcneil news 15 thanks leigha...st.

Martin parish has also closed all public parks to stop the spread in their areafor the latest updates for covid-19 stay connected with us