Europe reels under latest COVID-19 wave
b'Just when Europe thought it had beat COVID-19, it\\u2019s once again an epicentre of the pandemic. As countries struggle to fight off yet another wave of the virus many governments in the E.U. are bringing in strict new lockdowns, and in some cases contemplating vaccine mandates. But these efforts are meeting fierce \\u2014 and sometimes violent \\u2014 resistance.\\n\\nToday, the host of the Berlin podcast Common Ground Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson walks us through what\\u2019s fuelling this latest surge across Western European countries \\u2014 vaccine hesitancy, a more aggressive variant, general distrust in government, or all of the above?'