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Governor Gavin Newsom announces that California will become the first U.S. state to approach COVID-19 as an endemic rather than a pandemic.
2022-02-17

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that the state will require COVID-19 vaccines or negative COVID-19 tests for state workers, making New York the second U.S. state to do so after California.
2021-07-28

Illinois surpasses 1 million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth state to do so after California, Texas, Florida, and New York.
2021-01-7

California reports its first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom in a patient from Southern California.
2020-12-30

California reports 35,468 new cases in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record since the pandemic began. It also reports a record number of hospitalized patients: 2,013, and record number of 2,669 intensive care patients.
2020-12-11

California Governor Gavin Newsom introduces a regional stay-at-home order that requires the closure of bars, wineries, hair salons, and barbershops for three weeks in regions where ICU capacity falls below 15% and also restricts non-essential travel in those regions. The order divides the state into five regions.
2020-12-3

California reports 20,654 new cases in the last 24 hours, a new single-day record since the pandemic began.
2020-11-23

California reports 2,209 hospitalizations, the lowest in the state since April.
2020-10-11

Los Angeles County, California, announces a near-lockdown, urging residents to stay in their homes and to only go out in public for essential needs.
2020-03-19

The "Grand Princess" cruise ship, with at least 21 people aboard who've tested positive for COVID-19, has docked at the Port of Oakland, California, to continue to the next step in the quarantining measures process. The ship was carrying more than 2,000 passengers, as well as 1,100 crew members. The Grand Princess had been idling about 10 miles offshore since Thursday (March 5). Disembarking American passengers are being put under mandatory 14-day quarantine at military bases in California, Texas or Georgia. Foreign passengers are being sent to their home countries for the completion of the quarantine.
2020-03-9