The number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases in Louisiana continues to grow, and Gov. John Bel Edwards says that’s his greatest concern. The governor held a press briefing Saturday addressing the outbreak.

“We know that we have a relatively high number of cases, based on our population,” Edwards. He noted Texas has 39 cases with six times the population of Louisiana. There were 67 in Louisiana as of noon Saturday.

“The biggest concern that I have … if you look at cases per capita, we’re number three or number four in the country.”

The governor said that two cases have been confirmed by the CDC.

“But I really don’t want anyone to attach a lot of significance to that because we have practically 100% confidence that when someone is presumptively positive from a test, that they are in fact positive.”

Edwards said that the numbers of positive tests are rising rapidly, as was anticipated.

“And that is why we took the measures that we did yesterday,” he added, referring to his proclamation closing schools and limiting public gatherings to 250 people.

“Stay home if you are sick,” Edwards said. “I want to make a point about this and why it’s so critically important. The test results that we’re getting in today for the positive cases — those individuals probably received, or were transmitted to, the virus four, five, six days ago. So, think about that. Even if from this moment forward, not a single case gets transmitted, our numbers in all likelihood are going to continue to go up as people become symptomatic from the transmissions that have already happened.”

Saturday morning Bossier Parish was added to the list of parishes with at least one COVID-19 positive test.