You do know that there are more than 25 countries in Europe each implementing different lockdowns at different levels of severity at different stages of the COV

You do know that there are more than 25 countries in Europe each implementing different lockdowns at different levels of severity at different stages of the COVID, with some countries practically doing no lockdown (like Sweden), whose statistics are collected and aggregated from many tens of thousands of administrative units. Also, deaths from COVID are at least 1 month delayed from infection. As every country wanted to avoid the political cost of an early lockdown, most were delayed until it was unavoidable, so, obviously, cases and deaths increased during the beginning of the lockdown periods. On top of that, lockdowns were not (except in some cities, at the very beginning) really strict. People could go out for grocery shopping, to walk out the dog, to go to and from the work place (even crossing country borders), and there were exceptions to people with certain medical conditions (disabled, kids with disabilities, etc.) and people accompanying them.