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Louisiana is 4th state declared federal disaster amid virus

by Associated Press
| March 25, 2020 8:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana became the fourth state to receive a federal disaster declaration because of the coranvirus, a designation from President Donald Trump that acknowledges the scale of Louisiana's outbreak and unlocks millions of dollars in federal aid for the state's response.

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