California’s Covid-19 death toll officially surpassed 50,000 on Thursday, according to the state’s virus tracking board. Thursday’s total of 50,991 was a big jump up from Wednesday’s due to a massive backlog deaths in Los Angeles County were tallied.
Thursday’s tally becomes the state’s highest daily death toll of the pandemic.The grim news out of California follows two days after the state’s largest county — Los Angeles — reported 20,000 deaths due to the virus.
LA county marked that dark milestone just one day after the country-at-large recorded 500,000 deaths related to the virus.It was only recently that California became the state with the most pandemic-related deaths.On February 10, California recorded 44,989 Covid-19 deaths.
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