
The CDC initially refused since the person, who had no known exposure to the virus through travel or close contact with a known infected individual, did not meet the criteria for testing. The UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento said that when the person was transferred there on February 19, the medical team suspected it was COVID-19 and asked the CDC to test for SARS-CoV-2. On February 26, 2020, a case of unknown origin was confirmed in a resident of Solano County. Five more nationals who were also reported as being infected were evacuated from the ship the following week, and were quarantined at Travis Air Force Base several more cases among the evacuees were later confirmed. Fourteen of those repatriated people were infected with the virus. nationals stranded aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess, which had been held in quarantine in Yokohama, Japan. On February 15, the government evacuated 338 U.S. The case indicated community transmission was happening undetected in the state and the U.S., most likely since December. On February 6, 2020, a woman from San Jose, California, became the first COVID-19 death in the U.S., though this was not discovered until April 2020. evacuated 345 citizens from Hubei Province and took them to two air bases in California, Travis Air Force Base in Solano County and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, to be quarantined for 14 days. On the same day, the CDC reported the country's tenth and eleventh cases in San Benito County, including the second instance of human-to-human transmission. On February 2, the CDC confirmed the state's third case in a woman in Santa Clara County, California, who had recently traveled to Wuhan. citizens from Hubei Province aboard a chartered flight to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County. Department of State evacuated 195 of its employees, their families, and other U.S. The man recovered at home and was released from in-home isolation on February 20. On January 31, the CDC confirmed the state's second case, a man in Santa Clara County, who had recently traveled to Wuhan. The person, who had returned from travel to Wuhan, China, was released from the hospital in Orange County on February 1 in good condition to in-home isolation. On January 26, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case in California. įurther information: COVID-19 pandemic on Grand Princess

Ĭalifornia is the origin of the Epsilon variant of SARS-CoV-2, which by March 2021, accounted for 35% of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state. The slow initial rollout of vaccinations, along with the timing and scope of state COVID-19 restrictions, triggered a wide-scale effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in 2021. As of June 15, 2021, California administered 40,669,793 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the largest number of doses nationwide, and currently 11th of 50 states in terms of per capita dose administration. It has the highest count of deaths related to the virus, and the 35th-highest count of deaths per capita. Īs of June 16, 2022, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reported 9,199,942 confirmed cumulative cases and 91,240 deaths in the state, the highest number of confirmed cases in the United States, and the 41st-highest number of confirmed cases per capita.

On April 6, 2021, the state announced plans to fully reopen the economy by June 15, 2021. A mandatory statewide stay-at-home order was issued on March 19, 2020, that was ended on January 25, 2021.

A state of emergency was declared in the state on March 4, 2020. evacuated 345 more citizens from Hubei Province to two military bases in California, Travis Air Force Base in Solano County and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, where they were quarantined for 14 days. Department of State evacuated 195 persons from Wuhan, China aboard a chartered flight to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, and in the process may have contributed to spread within the state and the US at large. On January 29, 2020, as disease containment protocols were still being developed, the U.S. All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China, as testing was restricted to this group. Ten of the first twenty confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States occurred in California, the first of which was confirmed on January 26, 2020. ‡ Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.
