California has overtaken New York for the highest number of coronavirus cases in the United States. The most populous US state recorded 413,579 cases on Wednesday after adding a record 12,807 spike in new daily infections to its tally. The state now has 5,000 more cases than New York - the original epicenter of the nation's outbreak. If California were a country, it would rank fifth in the world for total COVID-19 cases behind only the United States, Brazil, India and Russia. Since its crush of cases earlier this year, New York state has gotten the virus under control.

Source: Daily Mail July 22, 2020 19:07 UTC