


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.
