Coronavirus Deaths Reach 40 In Alameda County; Over 1,000 In CA

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — The coronavirus death toll has increased each day this week in Alameda County. On Friday,one more person was added to the grim statistics. With the additional death, 40 Alameda County residents have lost their lives to the outbreak.

Another 54 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus, bringing the total infections to 1,061. That number has more than doubled since the beginning of the month, when there were 435 cases on April 1.

The cases are divided almost evenly between men and women, with 517 women diagnosed, and 537 men.

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Looking beyond Alameda County, at 1:45 p.m. on Friday, Johns Hopkins University reported that California has 28,888 confirmed cases of coronavirus. The states reporting more cases than California are New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

As for deaths, California reports 1,021. The county with the most deaths is Los Angeles with 495, followed by Santa Clara with 69, San Diego has 63, Riverside has 59, and San Bernardino has 47.

Nationwide, the United States leads the world in both confirmed cases and deaths. Confirmed cases have reached 686,991, and 34,575 deaths.

Around the world, there have been 153,177 deaths and 2,218,332 confirmed cases.

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