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Governor closes schools, delays primary due to coronavirus

by Associated Press
| March 13, 2020 5:30 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's governor on Friday closed K-12 public schools across the state for roughly a month, postponed the presidential primary until June and banned gatherings of more than 250 people, in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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