Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, October 15. I'm Naila Boodoo.

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First though, the rapid rise of coronavirus in Europe again is today's one big thing.

The EU is actually recording more coronavirus cases

as a proportion of population than we're recording here in the US.

Dave Lawler is Axios his world editor

and he's here now to update us on the latest in Europe.

Good morning, Dave.

Morning, Nila.

Can you just give us a quick rundown of what we're seeing? Europe. Good morning, Dave. Morning, Nila.

Can you just give us a quick rundown of what we're seeing, particularly within the EU?

For months and months we saw Europe able to keep cases much lower than they have been here in the United States.

Obviously they had that huge spike in the spring that was very scary.

And then things kind of got under control.

But starting in August, we've started to see this uptick that's really accelerated in a number of countries including

France, Spain, the UK, Netherlands and Belgium are all sort of at the early end of this spike here and now what we're seeing is governments figure out how to respond

because all of a sudden we're talking about lockdowns again.

So when we say that different countries are talking about lockdowns, what did we see

yesterday? So France came out and said that they were going to put Paris

and a number of other large cities under a curfew.

The Metropol, I had been a granoble, Lille, Lille, X Marseille, my

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