Europe is seeing a modest increase in new daily infections. This is to be expected as winter weather recedes, giving way to warmer spring weather, resulting in folks interacting with different people than they did from October through January (during the coldest weather of the year).
Interestingly, two countries are an exception; Spain and Portugal. (Portugal is essentially surrounded by Spain, thus for epidemiological purposes they should be consider as one unit.)
Spain refused to engage in repeated lockdowns.
Lockdowns artificially prevent the “susceptible pool” from becoming smaller, as nature intends/requires. In other words, Spain & Portugal allowed nature to take its course, while most other European nations worked through artificially means [lockdowns] to maintain a larger pool of susceptible persons.
So...as most of Europe sees increasing numbers, Spain & Portugal - having taken a different (wiser) path - are seeing continued declining numbers; now down to what they were in early March 2020!
