A coronavirus second wave is gathering pace across the continent with European leaders toying with heavy restrictions as Boris Johnson put millions in England under a new three-tier local lockdown.
The French may follow in the UK's footsteps and introduce something similar, while Italy is likely to ban private parties and the Czech Republic is shutting bars and shifting schools to distance learning.
It comes as the British PM laid out plans for a new three-tier lockdown system to be put into force from tomorrow, with each area assigned a Covid Local Alert Level.
Meanwhile, World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned attempting to ride out the pandemic in the hopes of herd immunity would be