AdvertisementMaskless carol singers on Tuesday performed outside a COVID-19 testing center in California - just as data shows the state's huge rise in cases is stopping the entire United States average from falling. They put out a 'desperate call' for residents to avoid a Christmas repeat, which they said would overwhelm the state's medical system. Across the US as a whole there were 3,131 more COVID deaths and 189,000 cases recorded Tuesday with a record 117,777 people in hospital. Up to 100 maskless carol singers gather outside a testing center in Thousand Oaks, California Tuesday even as cases threatened to overwhelm an already strained hospital system. Oaks Mall officials told ABC7: 'The event occurring at The Oaks at this moment is a non-sanctioned event.

Source: Daily Mail December 23, 2020 03:58 UTC