A day after reporting 6,509 new coronavirus cases — which was more than twice the figure from the day before — county health officials reported another eye-popping infection total Thursday: 8,633.
California’s winter COVID-19 surge intensified Wednesday, with new overall coronavirus cases likely tied to holiday gatherings spiking up, along with confirmed cases of the Omicron strain.of the coronavirus nationwide, accounting for an estimated 73% of new infections last week.
Gov. Gavin Newsom foreshadowed a similar development in California during a briefing Wednesday, sayin, “We now are tracking well north of 50% of all of the sequenced genomes” being identified as Omicron.
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