As of Friday morning, Johns Hopkins University recorded 603,072 confirmed cases in the state.
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The grim milestone comes as California continues to straighten out a data glitch on July 25 that left 295,000 health records - many of them COVID-19 tests - unprocessed.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said earlier this week the state's county watch list has been frozen as the state sorts out the inaccurate COVID-19 data. The governor said the watch list would be unfrozen at some point this week, once the backlog was fully cleared.
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Newsom expressed frustration during a press conference Wednesday with Californians who still aren't physical distancing amid the pandemic.
He said crowds at the American River near Sacramento recently made it look like "spring break."
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"We're not minimizing mixing. It throws shivers up my spine," said Newsom. "Here we are making all this progress, and it can be done away.
Also on Wednesday, state officials reported a total of 10,808 deaths in the state.
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