https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-california-surges-past-4000-cases-of-covid-19-1400-in-bay-area/ > Late Thursday night, California’s COVID-19 case count inched over 4,000, making it the second consecutive day the state has crossed a thousand-case marker. > When the day began, there were just over 3,000 people who had taken tests that had come back positive, having crossed that threshold Wednesday. With late-reporting counties, like Marin, counted at 10 p.m. Thursday, the latest statewide count sits at 4,040, according to the Bay Area News Group’s live tracking map.