Europe tries to stem pandemic surge
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Europe tightens restrictions to curb the spread of the Omicron variant after the UK suffers more than 540,000 new Covid-19 cases in a week

HIGHEST WEEKLY NEW CASES IN EUROPE (Dec 13-19)

UK 544,468      0.80% of population
France 367,297   0.56%
Germany 266,736  0.32%
Russia 195,525   0.13% 
Spain 165,337   0.35% 
Italy 163,638     0.27%
Turkey 130,940    0.15% 
Poland 130,592        0.35% 
Netherlands 100,090   0.58%
Belgium 69,992   0.60% 

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Sources: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg, Worldometers
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