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WHO experts said it's more likely the virus jumped to humans from an animal.
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 106 million people worldwide and killed over 2.3 million, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall in California
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in California have fallen 34% over the past two weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a Monday press conference at Petco Park in San Diego, which has been turned into a mass vaccination site.
A month ago, the Golden State was logging more than 50,000 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 each day. On Monday, the daily figure fell to 10,414 while the average testing positivity rate was at 5%, down from 14% last month, according to Newsom.
"Hopeful signs continue," the governor wrote on Twitter Monday.
ABC News' Bonnie Mclean and Alex Stone contributed to this report.
Nearly 3 million children in US have tested positive since pandemic began
More than 117,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among children were reported in the United States last week, representing a 10% increase in cases between Jan. 21 and Feb. 4, according to a report released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
The report, which compiles state-by-state data on infections among kids, found that 2.9 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 nationwide since the start of the pandemic. In total, children represent 12.9% of all cases in U.S. states that report COVID-19 data by age.
ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.
Facebook announces campaign to promote authoritative COVID-19 information
Facebook announced Monday a global campaign to promote authoritative COVID-19 sources and push back on disinformation.
The effort will including helping people find out where and when to get vaccinated, expanding the social media company's efforts to remove false COVID-19 information from Facebook and Instagram, and giving $120 million in advertising credits to health ministries, NGOs and UN agencies.
Facebook also said it would provide data for education to help build trust in COVID-19 vaccines, as well as to inform vaccine delivery efforts.
ABC News' Mary Kathryn Burke contributed to this report.
10% of US population has received 1 or more vaccine doses
Ten percent of Americans, or 31.6 million people, have received one or more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services planning document obtained by ABC News.
Three percent of the population, or 9.1 million people, have gotten both shots of the two-dose vaccine, according to the document.
U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to get 100 million shots into Americans' arms during the first 100 days of his presidency. Since his Jan. 20 inauguration, 24.6 million doses have been administered.
ABC News' Josh Margolin and Brian Hartman contributed to this report.
US reports under 100,000 new cases for 2nd straight day
There were 89,727 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the United States on Monday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
It's the second straight day that the U.S. has reported under 100,000 newly confirmed infections. Monday's case count is also far less than the country's all-time high of 300,282 new cases on Jan. 2. Meanwhile, Sunday's case count of 89,581 was the lowest the U.S. has reported since Nov. 2, Johns Hopkins data shows.
An additional 1,596 fatalities from COVID-19 were registered nationwide on Monday, down from a peak of 5,085 new deaths on Feb. 4, according to Johns Hopkins data.
COVID-19 data may be skewed due to possible lags in reporting over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend last month as well as during storm-related closures in some northeastern states last week.
A total of 27,097,346 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 465,083 have died, according to Johns Hopkins data. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.
Much of the country was under lockdown by the end of March as the first wave of pandemic hit. By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in the country's cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up over the summer.
The numbers lingered around 40,000 to 50,000 from mid-August through early October before surging again to record levels, crossing 100,000 for the first time on Nov. 4, then reaching 200,000 on Nov. 27 before topping 300,000 on Jan. 2.
So far, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized two COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use -- one developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, and another developed by American biotechnology company Moderna and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. More than 42 million vaccine doses have been administered nationwide, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.