California recently broke its record for the highest number of COVID-19 cases counted in a single day after more than 8,100 new cases …
California recently broke its record for the highest number of COVID-19 cases counted in a single day after more than 8,100 new cases of the disease were reported in the state this past Monday.
According to the Mercury News, the state on Monday recorded 8,184 cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The latest data from the California Department of Public Health shows over 222,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the state overall.
The newspaper reported the figure from this past Monday is a 25 percent increase from the daily totals recorded on any past Monday in the state, which is now reportedly seeing an average of 5,000-plus new cases daily.
The rate at which coronavirus tests have been returning with positive results in the past week has also increased to 5.
