Governor Gavin Newsom spoke via teleconference to the media and to the public at 12 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 2020. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California has cut its COVID-19 testing backlog by more than two-thirds, Gov.
Gavin Newsom announced Saturday, but has still managed to test less than one half of 1% of the state's nearly 40 million residents. “I own that.
I have a responsibility as your governor to do better,” the governor said during his daily press briefing. California has tested 126,000 people.
Of those, 13,000 test results are still pending as of Friday. That's down from the 59,500 pending results that were reported Thursday.