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Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on June 24

Experts warn parts of U.S. on verge of being overwhelmed by COVID-19 resurgence

The Associated Press · Posted: Jun 24, 2020 4:53 PM ET | Last

Updated: 2 hours ago

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The latest: [links for each]

* IMF sharply downgrades outlook for global economy in face of COVID-19.
* EU travel recommendations may impede Americans and Russians.
* Australia scrambles to prevent 2nd wave after 1st death in a month.
* Beware 2nd wave of coronavirus, medics warn Britain.
* Russia holds coronavirus-delayed Victory Day parade.
* Some countries reconsider 2-metre rule for physical distancing, but not Canada.
* How Canada got into a pandemic economy — and how it might get out.

INTERACTIVE | Tracking the coronavirus in Canada and around the world.

A coronavirus resurgence is wiping out two months of progress in the U.S. and sending infections to dire new levels across the country's South and West, with hospital administrators and health experts warning Wednesday that politicians and a tired-of-being-cooped-up public are letting a disaster unfold.

The U.S. recorded a one-day total of 34,700 new COVID-19 cases, just short of the nation's late-April peak of 36,400, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

While new cases have been declining steadily in early U.S. hotspots such as New York and New Jersey, several other states set single-day case records this week, including Arizona, California, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. Some of them also broke hospitalization records, as did North Carolina and South Carolina.

"People got complacent," said Dr. Marc Boom, CEO of the Houston Methodist hospital system. "And it's coming back and biting us, quite frankly."

WATCH | Long lines at COVID-19 test sites in U.S.:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-world-june24-1.5624885