These European Covid-19 infection charts do NOT look good – almost every country in Europe has a higher Covid case level now than before the huge Omicron winter wave of 2021.

We compared Covid  cases numbers for 27th September 2021 and 27th September 2022 across a few European countries to see how they were faring before the new winter wave sets in.

In almost every European country we looked at, Covid case numbers are far above those on the same date the year last year, and that is despite a dramatic reduction in testing across the continent.

Germany currently has nearly SEVEN times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

Germany is currently experiencing its fastest rate of COVID ICU admissions in the last year… faster than last winter’s surge.

Today 17/10/2022 Total ICU beds: 22,856 Covid patients in ICU: 1737 Covid patients on ventilators: 541 with 85% occupation of ICU beds

Here’s the latest variant picture for France: Lineage BQ.1.1 “Cerberus” is growing sharply in frequency, up to 15% of recent samples, the highest reported from any country. BQ.1.1 has 6 of the “Key RBD mutations”.

Finland is getting hit with the newer variants too.

Italy has nearly seven times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

France has about seven times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

Austria has around five times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

Portugal has around three times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

Greece has around three times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

The entire European Union has around three times as many Covid cases as on the equivalent day last year:

Rising Covid case numbers are already feeding through to increased hospitalizations in France and Germany. Hospitalizations in both countries are already running at about twice the level of 27th September 2021.