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Jeorganna Barnes, a worker at Harrah’s casino in Atlantic City, N.J., wipes slot machines with disinfectant Wednesday, July 1, 2020, as the casino prepared to reopen after 3 1/2 months of being. In 1991, Louisiana voted that up to 15 riverboat casinos could operate in the local waterways, in hopes to boost the state’s economy. Also, the state lottery began in the same year, including Powerball and scratch off tickets. Soon thereafter, video poker outlets and casinos were also legalized and began popping up across the state.

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Casinos across Louisiana will be closed for the next two weeks, according to reports.

The Louisiana Gaming Control Board was attributed in multiple reports for the announcement of the closures, which is set to begin at midnight Tuesday morning.

There are six casinos in Shreveport-Bossier City. Sam's Town and Eldorado are located in Shreveport. Boomtown, Diamondjacks, Horseshoe are Margaritaville are located in Bossier City.

On Friday, Harrah's Louisiana Downs announced in a news release that the remainder of the Quarter Horse meet would be closed to spectators.

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'There is no issue more important to us than making sure we manage this situation as effectively as possible, so guests continue to feel confident visiting us. Our senior management team meets daily to make decisions on how we can further improve our programs and actions to help protect guests, employees and backside families,' read a news release from Harrah's Louisiana Downs.

© Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times Twenty-five years after the casinos came to Shreveport.

Also on Friday, Gov. John Bel Edwards banned gatherings of 250 or more for a month in response to COVID-19, which included casinos.

Louisiana State Police consider the vessel, or the gambling area, of the casino as the area applying to the ban, according to LSP Trooper Brent Hardy.

Meaning no more than 250 individuals total, including employees, were allowed in the gambling area, no matter the number of floors.

Since the ban, state police reports indicated all casinos were close but didn't break the number 'huge or with large congregations of people,' Hardy said on Monday.

Monitoring the number of people as they migrated throughout the vessel was difficult, Hardy said.

The ban does not apply to 'normal operations' at locations such as airports, medical facilities, shopping centers or malls, office buildings, factories or manufacturing facilities, or grocery or department stores, according to the proclamation.

'The limits on gatherings of 250 people or more statewide is based on federal CDC guidance given the community spread which we are currently experiencing. These steps are necessary to protect the health and safety of the people of Louisiana from the risk of COVID-19,' Edwards said in a news release.

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Emily Enfinger is the breaking news reporter for The Shreveport Times, covering crime and court. Follow her on Twitter at @EmilyEnfinger.

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