Clear and sustained Coronavirus growth across much of Europe. In a great deal of eastern Europe 3rd wave already embedded, with fastest growth in the west. UK (along with other states which had a severe outbreak at turn of the year) now with the lowest rates across continent.
7 day average per million

🇨🇿 1088 (-10%)
🇪🇪 978 (-2%)
🇭🇺 738 (16%)
🇵🇱 509 (37%)
🇧🇬 474 (33%)
🇸🇪 443 (16%)
🇫🇷 401 (23%)
🇮🇹 373 (5%)
🇳🇱 348 (24%)
🇸🇰 338 (-10%)
🇷🇴 266 (24%)
🇳🇴 172 (43%)
🇩🇪 158 (49%)
🇫🇮 126 (11%)
🇩🇰 117 (-11%)
🇮🇪 104 (2%)
🇪🇸 104 (-6%)
🇬🇧 83 (-3%)
🇵🇹 49 (-32%)
Daily vaccine doses per 100,000 people (7 day rolling average)

Clear trend is up for virtually everywhere in Europe, UK remains ahead (overtaken now by US whose own advances have been less noted here but extremely striking). Nonetheless dips in many EU countries in recent days.
Seems clear though that the vaccine rate atm is still less important than severity of lockdowns across different countries. UK/Portugal which locked down hard at start of the year now have low rates, France which was in a different place, is locking down now and is much higher.
Important to note too that UK infection reductions appear to be plateauing. In Scotland ONS estimates that infection is up slightly. And in England the picture isn't uniform, with pockets of the north posting significantly higher infection rates than the south.
Here's the regional picture in England. Yorkshire and Humber posting a rate per 100,000 of 109.5. Compare to London at 38.6.

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