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California Covid Cases Jump 50% In 24 Hours As 2021 Summer Surge Tops That Of 2020

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After a week of rollercoaster numbers that have generally trended up, the State of California on Friday recorded its highest number of new daily Covid cases since the dark days of January.

The number of new cases in the past 24 hours, 14,402, was up more than 50% from the 9,517 cases tallied just the day before.

Looking back a little further, the number of new daily cases has nearly doubled in the past nine days, from 7,457 on July 28 to 14,402 on Friday.Friday’s total is the largest one-day number of new cases since January 27, 2021.

It officially puts the current peak of the 2021 summer surge above the peak of the summer surge last year, which saw 12,614 new cases on August 14, 2020.

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