WATCH: Gov. Edwards holds Tropical Depression Cristobal, COVID-19 briefing

Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks Monday, May 11, 2020, at his media briefing on the state's COVID-19 response at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La., announcing that his stay-at-home directive will end with the Phase 1 reopening of the state on Friday, May 15. Dr. Alex Billioux, M.D., right, assistant secretary of health for the La. Dept. of Health's Office of Public Health, looks on.(Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

By Danielle Scruggs

Published: Jun. 8, 2020 at 7:19 AM CDT

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will hold a Unified Command Group meeting on Louisiana’s response to Tropical Depression Cristobal on Monday, June 8.

Afterword, he will discuss the state’s response to the storm, which made landfall Sunday afternoon, and on Louisiana’s ongoing response to COVID-19.

As of Sunday, June 7, there were 48,816 people with coronavirus in Louisiana and 2,825 deaths.