 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. 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 announced shes signing an executive order that requires people to wear face coverings when they are inside a business. 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 on Twitter. She added: This is to protect the health of residents and visitors and to assist in the safe reopening of the city-parish economy without the need for the strict mitigation. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell already has issued a mask requirement for nearly all activities in her city, and the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson... 