REUTERSMore than 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in California on FridayCalifornia’s two most densely inhabited regions and its agricultural breadbasket will be under stay-at-home orders by Sunday night as the Covid-19 pandemic strains hospitals in the most populous US state, officials said. The San Francisco Bay Area will also go into lockdown on Sunday night, under a different set of orders announced Friday by officials there. More than 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in California on Friday, officials said on Saturday, a record since the pandemic began. Also read: Iran's Covid-19 deaths surpass 50,000More than 100,900 people were hospitalized with the disease in the United States as of Friday. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now projects nearly 539,000 Covid-19 deaths by April 1, even as vaccines start to become available.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 05, 2020 23:15 UTC