Are European Countries Really Flattening the COVID-19 Curve?

Russia has become the country with the second-most cumulative confirmed cases in the world after the U.S. Russia overtook Spain’s case numbers on Sunday. Germany began leveling its curve around six weeks into the outbreak, while France started seeing results at around seven weeks. The global coronavirus pandemic is being contained in Western European countries, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz shows in the infographic below, while Russia and Brazil have now confirmed more cases than many of the earlier European hot spots. Countries like Turkey or India are also on track to produce larger outbreaks than, for example, Europe has seen. 

Also, the development in the UK is, on the other hand, more worrisome as infections have not yet shown major signs of slowing down, now making the UK the country the fifth most confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide and the second-most deaths. The U.S. is currently the country with the most known infections as well as deaths and has a curve of infections which is also still pointing mostly upwards. Infections have passed 1.5 million stateside.