U.S. on brink of rampant coronavirus spread, Europe hospitals strained

FILE PHOTO: People walk past shuttered restaurants and bars during the resurging coronavirus outbreak in Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 14 2020. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of U.S. states were in a danger zone of coronavirus spread and six, including election battleground Wisconsin, reported a record one-day increase in COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday while the pandemic's resurgence in Europe strained hospitals.

Coronavirus deaths hit fresh daily records in Hawaii, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, a state that also reported a record daily increase in new cases together with Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio, according to a Reuters analysis.