California Becomes First U.S. State To Report 50 000 New Covid Cases In 1 Day
Health officials confirmed 53,711 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing California’s total case count to 1.67 million since the pandemic began. The enormous leap in cases exceeded the state’s previous daily record, established last week, by roughly 17,000 cases. It also surpassed single-day infection records set by all other U.S. states throughout the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak. A spokesperson from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) explained the latest jump in daily diagnosis numbers does not necessarily reflect cases determined positive on Tuesday....