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DC Fights to Enforce Distancing and Braces for Looming Surge

Associated Press

   Pick-up basketball games. Crowds gathering at an outdoor fish market.
   Family hikes along trails in Rock Creek Park. The warmer weather is
   bringing violations of social distance guidelines in the nation's
   capital, even as health officials predict the city could become one of
   the next U.S. hot spots in the coronavirus pandemic.

   More than 1,200 people have tested positive, with 22 deaths, in
   Washington. But national and local health officials predict that the
   worst is yet to come.

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