“I may be missing something here but while the European numbers show an increase in positive test results, fatalities are still down. “
The most vulnerable tended to get vaccinated first. Now Delta is flashing through the unvaccinated. There will likely be a much lower fatality rate, just because its a mostly younger crop of patients, but deaths will likely rise somewhat in absolute numbers. They lag case number changes by a few weeks.
It is already started in the USA as well, but we are weeks behind the European wave.
The UK should be well passed the lag cycle of fataliyies to cases and yesterday’s count was 49 in a nation of 63 million.