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The new year began in California with bad news, when it was announced on the first day of 2021 that died 585 people died in one day as a result of COVID – 19.
That figure, which corresponds to the final day of 2020, constitutes a new negative record for the state as health authorities speak about the seriousness of the situation, as Christina Ghaly, director of health services for the County of Los Angeles, who said the county is “on the brink of catastrophe” due to the saturation of hospitals .
The report included 47, 189 new cases to bring the total to about 3 million in the state, which this week exceeded the 20, 000 deaths from the coronavirus .
Numbers of # COVID 19 in California:
🔹 Cases confirmed to date: 2, 292, 568
🔹 Note: Numbers may not represent true changes from day to day, as the reporting of test results may be delayed. pic.twitter.com/RD1cibVrR9– CA Public Health (@CAPublicHealth) January 1, 2021
The situation is so delicate, especially in Southern California and the Central Valley, that Governor Gavin Newsom went to the Corps of Engineers of the US Army to provide support with oxygenation systems in several medical centers whose infrastructure is not optimal.
Attention capacity in intensive care units remained at 0 in the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions , at just 6.3% in the San Francisco Bay and 12% in Greater Sacramento.
The only one of the five regions of the pandemic in California that is not in trouble for care of serious cases is Northern California (33%).
The United States already exceeded the number of 20 millions of infections COVID officials – 19 and it is feared that the worst may come in January due to the effect of the December holidays.