JUST IN: California breaks daily record with over 8,000 new coronavirus cases today

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.

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 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 5.9 percent, which is reportedly 1.3 percent higher than the rate recorded a couple of weeks back.

Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the public health director for Los Angeles County, which reportedly saw about 3,000 new cases on Monday, told the paper that “alarming increases in cases, positivity rates and hospitalizations signals that we, as a community, need to take immediate action to slow the spread of COVID-19.”

“Otherwise, we are quickly moving toward overwhelming our healthcare system and seeing even more devastating illness and death,” she continued.

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