California reported a record increase of more than 11,800 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, according to a Reuters tally of county data.
This comes in the wake of the Trump administration pushing for schools to reopen to help businesses return to normal.
This is the first time California has reported over 10,000 new infections since setting a record with 10,861 cases on July 14.
Florida has reported over 10,000 new cases a day for the last six days in a row and Texas has reported over 10,000 cases for five out of the last seven days.
California’s daily increases have already surpassed the highest daily tally reported by any European country during the height of the pandemic there.
Hospitals are filling with COVID patients and Los Angeles reported record numbers of currently hospitalized coronavirus patients for the second day in a row on Monday.
So far, 14.73 million people have contracted coronavirus in the world. Out of this, 609,142 deaths have been reported, and 8.13 million people have since recovered.
