| JapaneseGamesLover said: Europe is doing great, except UK. |
Europe has been adding a lot of corrections recently, removing cases and deaths, up to 2000 at a time. It's hard to tell how Europe is doing exactly with all these subtractions. France, Spain and the UK, 3 big hitters, are messing with the numbers the most. Russia is doing the worst atm, but their reporting is pretty stable, hardly any week to weekend variations and no big spikes or deleting numbers. Germany, despite big variations between week and weekend number is pretty stable as well.
With so much variation in who qualifies for testing, different kinds of tests, duration between test and reporting results, and what qualifies as a covid19 death or whether outside hospital deaths get tested or counted at all, it's hard to tell what's going on when comparing countries or even within the same country.
Europe is definitely doing better than most of the world atm, the trick is not to get carried away returning back to 'normal', especially now the numbers are so fudged with corrections and changing test criteria.
Week over week UK is doing good as well, better than the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and Belgium. Netherlands is loosening test criteria, Russia is just coming down from their peak, Sweden is heading back up to R1 and Belgium had a big dip last week so this week the progress looks smaller compared to last week.
My dad said the schools will go back to full capacity next week in the Netherlands. (They were open already but alternating half the kids) We'll see how that goes. Here Quebec (schools open again) has started to head back up to R1 and Ontario dipped back under R1 (schools won't re-open until September, but other things are open already) With this 2 week delay between changing mobility and seeing results, focus should be on getting that delay down. The earlier you catch infections the less they can spread. No more turning people away that want to get tested should be a first priority.
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