On Monday, the state reported 11,554 new coronavirus cases, its highest single-day tally, surpassing a record set a week ago.
As of Monday, 2,232 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, the sixth consecutive day that hospitalizations surpassed 2,100.On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the so-called positivity rate over the previous seven days was 7.2%; it had been 7.7% the previous Monday.
On Friday, Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California’s Health and Human Services Agency, said he was encouraged by the stability in the positivity rate after weeks of increases. In late May, the positivity rate was around 4%.Ghaly suggested Friday that it was too early to call it a trend, but if the positivity rate continues to fall, it could mean that the re-closure of some businesses is working to help control the spread of the disease.
“As soon as we feel confident in that trend and we see other numbers start to stabilize, we’ll credit some of the moves we made over the last few weeks,” Ghaly said. “It’s been about three, four weeks since we ... first started to make moves ... so we’re right in that time period where we may see some of the changes in the benefits of those [policy changes].”
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