We've had lockdown here for a week already. The local Spar is fine - after an initial run on toilet paper, the staff worked with a fury to get stuff onto the shelves faster than folk were taking it off, with the result that yesterday the shelves and aisles were groaning with Easter stuff. I have some migrants from Italy - they come every year. Black Redstarts. Usually two pairs. So rare in the UK that I once had to spend (planning condition) £300,000 installing a 'brown roof' on a new building for them; much to the chagrin of the client. The ecology people said they liked old bombsites, with plenty of demolition rubble, burnt wood and fireweed. Actually, they just like flies - or insects anyway - each pair eating some 1.5kg during the breeding season. And whilst the locals regard them as a bloody nuisance, I welcome them. They're ugly, they can't sing for shit and they're not entertaining like tits, but just for the untold millions that they cost UK developers, they're fab.
Stay safe all and let's take care of each other.
| EU/EEA and the UK | Sum of Cases | Sum of Deaths |
| Italy | 59138 | 5476 |
| Spain | 28572 | 1720 |
| Germany | 24774 | 94 |
| France | 16018 | 674 |
| United_Kingdom | 5683 | 281 |
| Netherlands | 4204 | 179 |
| Austria | 3631 | 16 |
| Belgium | 3401 | 75 |
| Norway | 2132 | 7 |
| Sweden | 1906 | 21 |
| Portugal | 1600 | 14 |
| Denmark | 1395 | 13 |
| Czech_Republic | 1165 | 1 |
| Ireland | 906 | 4 |
| Luxembourg | 798 | 8 |
| Poland | 634 | 7 |
| Finland | 626 | 1 |
| Greece | 624 | 15 |
| Iceland | 568 | 1 |
| Romania | 433 | 2 |
| Slovenia | 414 | 1 |
| Estonia | 326 | 0 |
| Croatia | 235 | 1 |
| Bulgaria | 185 | 3 |
| Slovakia | 185 | 0 |
| Hungary | 167 | 7 |
| Lithuania | 143 | 1 |
| Latvia | 139 | 0 |
| Cyprus | 95 | 0 |
| Malta | 90 | 0 |
| Liechtenstein | 46 | 0 |
| Total | 160233 | 8622 |
