Fig. 13.

COVID-19 deaths in 20 European countries up to 7^th August 2021. a) Daily new deaths 7-day average; b) Cumulative deaths per million people. a) shows deaths are practically nil between 15^th July to 15^th September 2020 for all the countries (periods shown between red dotted lines). High deaths are noticed from 15^th October 2020 to 15^th May 2021 (shown between black dotted lines). b) shows considering the whole period of a pandemic, the trend was nominal in most countries between 15^th May to 15^th October 2020 (marked by dotted red, the horizontal part between those lines is quite distinct). Such nominal trend is again noticed since 15^th May 2021 (horizontal lines are distinct after dotted black lines). (Plots generated using the site Ourworldindata). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)