State’s coronavirus cases keeps rising over weekend, mostly in Southern California

Fewer than half of California’s county health departments issued COVID-19 updates on Sunday, but the number of cases statewide still grew by more than 1,000 while fatalities from the deadly new disease crossed 2,700.
The 1,128 new cases were just over half the amount reported Saturday, meaning the statewide case count rose by about 5% over the weekend to 67,848, according to data compiled by this news organization.
Still, as with the now more than 67,000 confirmed cases in the state, most