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It’s Friday. The weather has been beautiful. Beaches and parks beckon.

But on Thursday, in the wake of the state’s deadliest day yet, Gov. Gavin Newsom urged Californians not to give into the temptation to gather, even outdoors.

“Let’s not dream of regretting,” he said. “Stay home to the extent possible.”

Over the previous 24 hours, he said, California saw 115 Covid-19 deaths. That brought the total number of those lost — each one representing, as Mr. Newsom has repeated in his daily news briefings, an individual and a family “torn asunder” — to 1,469.

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While Mr. Newsom noted that the number of hospitalizations and patients in intensive care had decreased slightly from the day before, he said that the number of deaths should serve as a warning.