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Texas overtook California as the US state with the most COVID-19 cases on Saturday, despite its much smaller population.
On Saturday evening, Texas’s total number of recorded COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began ticked up to 931,750, compared to 931,740 cases in California, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
As of Monday, Texas had reported 957,108 coronavirus cases, whilst California had reported 938,883, a coronavirus tracker from The New York Times showed.
Texas, which has a population of 29 million, has 3,282 cases per 100,000 people, according to the tracker.
In comparison, California — the most populous state in the US with 39.5 million people — has 2,366 cases per 100,000 residents.
Since September, Texas has added many older cases onto the statewide tally that were backlogged at commercial laboratories, the Times reported.
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Texas has already passed California’s death toll, too. On Monday, Texas’ tally of COVID-19 deaths reached 18,582. In California, 17,671 coronavirus deaths have been recorded.
California had been the state with the most infections since mid-July, when it surpassed New York, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to COVID-19 are on the rise in Texas, according to an analysis of state data by the Texas Tribune. On November 1, about 5,700 Texans were hospitalized with the coronavirus, nearly 500 more than the week before.
Overall, more than 9.2 million people have been infected with COVID-19 in the US, and at least 231,000 have died — the highest death toll of any country in the world. SEE ALSO: Boris Johnson’s ministers expect England’s coronavirus lockdown to be extended into next year
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