Fewer than half of California’s county health departments issued COVID-19 updates on Sunday, but the number of cases statewide still grew by more than 1,000 while fatalities from the deadly new disease crossed 2,700.

The 1,128 new cases were just over half the amount reported Saturday, meaning the statewide case count rose by about 5% over the weekend to 67,848, according to data compiled by this news organization.

Still, as with the now more than 67,000 confirmed cases in the state, most of that growth was centered in Southern California.

There were 137 newly confirmed cases of the virus in the five-county Bay Area, excluding San Mateo County, which didn’t issue an update Sunday. San Francisco and Santa Clara reported the region’s only two deaths, while the statewide death toll grew by 26 to 2,716.

In Los Angles, officials announced the county had gone over 31,000 cases and 1,500 deaths. Both numbers represent between 46% and 56% of the statewide total, despite LA accounting for about a quarter of California’s 40 million residents.

San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa counties are home to about 16% of California’s population — but 13% of its COVID-19 cases.

Six Southern California counties reported at least 100 new cases Sunday, while no other jurisdiction reported more than the 54 new cases in Alameda County.

The number of patients hospitalized remained stable over the weekend, with 3,218 receiving medical care and confirmed to have the virus. Another 1,337 are in hospital beds and suspected to have the virus. The five-county Bay Area accounts for about 8.3% of hospitalizations across the state (267), with the majority in Los Angeles County (1,690).

Even as some businesses began to reopen last week, the virus showed no signs of slowing down. The state reported its most cases in a single day on Wednesday, but experts have cautioned rising case numbers could reflect only officials’ ability to detect the virus — not necessarily an increase in its spread.

Labs in California have performed nearly 1 million tests and could cross that milestone Monday. The state received another 43,000 test results on Saturday, the most recent day for which data was available, bringing its total number of tests to more than 955,000. About 7% of all tests have come back positive, but that rate is trending downward, with 5.4% testing positive over the past seven days.