 BATON ROUGE, La. AP Louisiana has recorded its largest daily coronavirus case spike since April, and the mayor of Baton Rouge announced Wednesday that she is requiring people to wear masks inside businesses in hopes of stemming the worrisome spread of the disease. Nearly 2,100 new cases of the COVID-19 disease caused by the coronavirus were confirmed over the past day in Louisiana residents, and hospitalizations continued to tick upward. The state is regularly lodging around 1,000 new positive cases each day, numbers that are starting to look like early April before the impacts of a statewide stay-at-home order drove down new infections. The trend is worrying public health experts that Louisianas once successful efforts to slow infections are being undermined by a complacent public ignoring recommended precautions. This disease is coming back, and its coming back with a vengeance, and we better start getting serious, said Dr. Jimmy Guidry, state health officer. Louisianas health department said the increases arent all tied to more testing and arent in group settings, such as nursing homes. Nearly all the cases reported Wednesday, the health department said, are tied to community spread. In Louisianas capital city, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome signed an executive order that requires people to wear face coverings when they are inside a business, beginning Friday. Gov. John Bel Edwards already mandates that workers who deal with the public in any business statewide must wear a mask; Broomes order will apply to patrons. My message is simple. Save a life, save our economy and wear a face covering, Broome said at a news conference with Edwards. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell already has issued a mask requirement for nearly all activities in her city, and the New Orleans suburb of... 