California recorded 146,981 coronavirus cases as of Friday and 4,985 deaths.

The case total climbed by 3,802 from the day before and deaths rose by 57.

Los Angeles County, which has nearly half the cases in California, recorded more new cases (1,601) and deaths (19) than anywhere else in the state for a total of 70,476 cases and 2,832 deaths.

In the Bay Area, COVID-19 continued to hit Alameda County the hardest. The county saw 97 new cases for a total of 4,216 and one new death, bringing the number of fatalities to 109.

San Mateo County recorded more deaths — six — Friday than any other Bay Area county for a total of 99. San Mateo reported 39 new cases, bringing its total case count to 2,533.

Santa Clara County, which has the second highest total number of cases after Alameda County, reported 54 new cases for a total of 3,117 and two new deaths, bringing the total to 150.

No other deaths were reported Friday in the Bay Area. In San Francisco, the case total climbed by 38 to 2,878 and in Contra Costa the number of cases rose by 48 to 1,877.

Three months after shuttering, two large San Jose malls – Westfield Valley Fair and Westfield Oakridge – have announced plans to reopen in-store shopping by Monday.

As counties across the state move forward with reopening restaurants, shops, hair salons and other places where people gather, health experts like the chair of the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco, Bob Wachter, are cautioning against moving too quickly — pointing to rising case numbers in places like Southern California, Texas and Arizona as evidence that the deadly virus remains a threat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week put out guidance for how Americans should make daily decisions, like whether to run errands or use public transportation.

“In general,” the CDC warned, “the more closely you interact with others and the longer that interaction, the higher the risk of COVID-19 spread.”