A day after California surpassed 100,000 coronavirus cases, the state added nearly 2,000 more positive tests to its count and 80 more people died.
According to data compiled by this news organization, 1,992 new cases were reported in the state Thursday, bringing the total to 103,731 since the beginning of the pandemic. After 80 people were added to the state’s COVID-19 death toll, California is expected to surpass 4,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday.
California is likely to become the seventh state with at least 4,000 COVID-19 deaths on Friday and would join New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Michigan in reaching that milestone.
Of the 3,992 people who have died after testing positive for COVID-19 in the state, 2,241 have come from Los Angeles County. The state’s most populous county continued with that trend Thursday, reporting 1,074 of the new cases and 46 of the new deaths.
No other California county reported more than seven deaths Thursday and only two other counties –San Bernadino County (137) and San Diego County (117)– recorded more than 100 new cases.
Only two Bay Area counties reported new deaths Thursday as Alameda County announced its 94th death while Solano County recorded its 22nd death.
San Mateo County became the fourth in the Bay Area to top 2,000 total cases as the 59 cases it announced Thursday marked the most of any Bay Area County. San Mateo’s 2,022 cases trail Alameda County (3,097), Santa Clara County (2,701) and San Francisco (2,437).
Despite at least 80 people with COVID-19 dying for the second consecutive day, the state’s seven-day new death average dipped slightly on Thursday from 59.57 to 56.14 in large part due to back-to-back days, May 24-25, in which only 16 deaths were recorded.
The state’s seven-day new case count also continued to drop from its Tuesday peak of 2,283 down to 2,201.
With nearly 104,000 confirmed coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, there have now been more than 258 cases per 100,000 residents in the state.
