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Delta Variant Cases Identified In California Rise 71% Over Past Week; Covid Test Positivity Rate Up 50% For 2nd Week In A Row

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“I can assure you they’re going to be higher.” That was California Governor Gavin Newsom’s response yesterday when asked about the updated numbers on the Delta variant due to be released today.

He was right.Last week, there were 634 Delta cases identified in California. The total released today is 1,085. That’s a 71% rise in just one week.

Only a fraction of Covid-19 tests are genomically sequenced — the process by which individual variants are parsed — so the raw numbers are small compared to overall new case numbers.

But genomic sequencing does give an up-or-down indication of variant spread.The number of daily reported cases topped 1,400 on Thursday.

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