Monday, Dec. 21. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In March, within weeks of the first official COVID-19 death in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a sweeping lockdown order that shut down all nonessential activities in the state. By April, that stay-at-home order appeared to have produced results. “You have successfully bent and arguably flattened the curve in the state of California,” he said to residents who heeded the mandate.