AS England comes to terms with its second national lockdown, many countries around the world have also reinstated strict Covid measures.
Covid today is spreading faster than it did in the first wave, according to top French scientist Arnaud Fontanet, which is a problem seen across much of Europe.
Few countries avoided national lockdowns but even those that did are grappling with a second wave.
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Sweden, which famously did not implement the most stringent of measures, has brought in harsher restrictions for five of its 21 regions after months of no lockdown.
Announced as guidance, not as law like much of its European counterparts, Sweden's measures are much more relaxed than those in France, Germany, and the UK.
But how does the rest of the world compare?
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