California COVID-19 cases top 400,000, soon to overtake New York as worst-hit state

California on Tuesday became the second U.S. state after New York to report more than 400,000 COVID-19 cases, according to a Reuters tally of ...

22 Jul 2020 05:29AMLOS ANGELES: California on Tuesday became the second US state after New York to report more than 400,000 COVID-19 cases, according to a Reuters tally of county data.

The rapid increase of cases has made it difficult to trace the pathogen's path through the community through contact tracing, a process of interviewing people who test positive for the virus to find out how they were exposed, and whom they in turn might have exposed, said California Secretary of Health and Human Services Mark Ghaly.

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