>> But OTOH testing is probably exposing a lot more cases where symptoms are low or
>> non-existent and which would have completely gone under the radar in March/April, but are now
>> being counted and are bringing the figures across Europe to somewhere about the same level
>> as March.
In the UK, or certainly England and Wales, the numbers are being driven up by the availability of testing. Whilst there are still widespread reports of delay/inefficiency in testing very large numbers of people are being tested as soon as they have symptoms. Many of those are young people who fight off the infection with only a few days of feeling rough.
The worrying thing will be when hospital admissions and transfers to ICU get back to the levels of last spring.
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