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Reporters under self-quarantine after attending conference

Posted at 8:35 AM, Mar 11, 2020
and last updated 2020-03-11 09:35:51-04

BATON ROUGE — The Advocate and the Times-Picayune are taking precautions after some of their reporters attended the same conference as one of the newest COVID-19 patients.

The papers say those reporters who attended the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting event in New Orleans will be "working form home for the time being."

The papers have hired a firm to clean their offices in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. They say those offices will stay open.