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As I was at pains to point out last week the European countries infection rate published daily is the 14 day cumulative number of new cases based upon those tested not on those within the whole population that are estimated to have the disease, that surveys such as that from the ONS calculate. Unless you can find data similar to the ONS research for all other European countries you simply cannot make that comparison. I'm not supporting the way that quarantine policy is applied - far from it - but the data has to be like-for-like to mean anything.
I completely agree with you, but I guess there has to be some like-for-like comparison. Countries like the UK with a now robust and aggressive testing regimes are now finding the cases, but being penalised (perhaps the wrong word) as a result of such testing. Only Denmark is the only country in Europe with over 1m population has tested more people per head of population.