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As the worldwide infection total has exceeded 400,000 and the U.S. death toll is rapidly rising, the coronavirus is bringing about even more dire and unprecedented measures, especially by governments in the pandemic’s hot zones.

That includes California, where there are now more than 2,400 confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 49 deaths as of midday Tuesday, according to a Sacramento Bee survey of numbers released by counties’ public health departments.

Los Angeles County announced three fatalities for a total of 11 as of early Tuesday afternoon, and disclosed the first confirmed coronavirus death of a child in California.

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This story was originally published March 24, 2020 at 5:25 PM.