A worker passes testing bags to a passenger at a drive-in COVID-19 testing center at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science amid the coronavirus pandemic on July 31, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California has surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus, making it the U.S.
state with the third-highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.The figure was reported Friday by Johns Hopkins University, with 10,024 dead since the outbreak began in California in February.New York and New Jersey have the highest and second highest number of deaths in the U.S.