Experts claim the true scale of the coronavirus peak in Europe in March was ten times the current second wave. Across the continent there are currently around 300,000 new cases a week.
But health experts claim an estimated three million caught the disease in one week in the spring, with most cases going undiagnosed.
The genuine spread of the deadly virus will never be known because mass testing is now far more advanced than during the first outbreak.
Despite the huge death toll, just 200,000 cases were confirmed in a week Europe during the first outbreak. That news comes as daily infections in the UK surged to a record 7,143 — a whopping 77 per cent increase from 4,044 positive cases the day before.
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