Covid-19 in Europe: What do the latest figures tell us?

Passengers arriving at Birmingham Airport. People arriving into England from holidays in Spain must quarantine when they return home, following a rise in cases in the country (Jacob King/PA)

Despite a well-publicised increase in the number of new Covid-19 cases in Spain, there is currently little evidence of a Europe-wide “second wave” of coronavirus, with most countries recording weekly rates that are either broadly flat, falling, or have ticked upwards slightly from a very low level.

Over the past four weeks, the seven-day rate of new confirmed cases in Spain has risen steadily from 6.1 per 100,000 people to 10.6, 21.4 and 32.1.