The UK is recording the largest number of new coronavirus cases in Europe and the rate at which they are soaring is 'frightening' other EU states, Austria's health minister said yesterday.
Rudi Anschober highlighted the rapid growth in UK cases at a press conference in Vienna where he hailed Austria's own success in slowing the outbreak.
The minister held up a chart showing the average daily growth in infections over the last 10 days, on which Austria performed best and Britain worst.
'That's what's frightening a lot of people on a European level at the moment, that's the figure in Britain of 7.5 per cent,' he said, pointing to the UK column.
The equivalent figure for Austria was 1.8 per cent, according to the minister's graph.
The figures were 5.7 per cent in Sweden, 3.7 per cent in France, 3.2 per cent in Spain, 3.0 per cent in Germany, 2.5 per cent in Italy and 2.2 per cent in Switzerland, his figures showed.
Several countries are seeing a slowing down in the spread of coronavirus after half the population of the world found themselves under lockdown.
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He pointed to the United Kingdom, along with the likes of Belarus and Russia, as reason to believe that Europe is still 'in the eye of the COVID-19 storm'.
