⁍ Nearly two-thirds of U.S. states were in a danger zone of coronavirus spread.

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⁍ Pandemic’s resurgence in Europe strained hospitals.

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⁍ Pandemic has killed more than 221,000 people in the United States.

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– The coronavirus that has killed more than 221,000 people around the world is surging again in Europe, where authorities are declaring a “tsunami” of infections. Belgium’s health minister says the country is struggling with a “tsunami” of infections, and the medical director of Barcelona’s Hospital del Mar says that if the “rhythm of the past week continues, rescheduling and suspending some non-priority activities will become unavoidable,” reports Reuters. In the US, 32 states have entered a danger zone with more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past week, and the case rate has reached its highest level since a peak in July, according to a Reuters analysis. A block of states in the Midwest and Mountain regions from Idaho to Illinois were a red zone along with Alaska, denoting rapidly rising infection. Dutch health authorities say that if the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital wards continues to grow, three-quarters of regular care may have to be scrapped by the end of November, and there were similar warnings from Czech authorities. “We have hit a wall on clinical beds,” says a spokesman for the Dutch hospital association NVZ. German Health Minister Jens Spahn tested positive, as did Brazilian Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello. Already, a number of regional health authorities in Germany, one of the countries that dealt with the lockdowns ordered earlier in the year to stop health services from being overwhelmed. Unwilling to shut down their countries again, governments have sought less drastic measures to limit public gatherings and balance the need to keep their economies turning with holding back from the pandemic.