The UK has the worst coronavirus rate in Europe, overtaking many countries it's currently restricting travel to.
Over the past week 107.3 per million people tested positive for the virus in the UK, according to the Oxford University-based research platform Our World in Data.
That puts it well ahead of holiday hotspots that are welcoming in Brits but have been placed on the amber travel list by the UK government.
It also signals a reverse in fortunes after England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland spent months with one of the lowest coronavirus case rates in Europe.
An outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant has seen an end to that run of good form however, while forcing Boris Johnson to push the lifting of restrictions back by four weeks.
The Our World in Data portal shows that the UK is now ahead of the 43 other European countries included in the statistics.
Just behind it in the rankings is Spain, with 104.6 cases per million people, followed by Latvia (92.1) and Andorra (90.6).
Belarus (89.77) and Russia (83.7) come next, followed by Denmark (78.36), the Netherlands (77.19) and Sweden (76.3).
Italy, which was battered by the virus last year, now has just 28.5 cases per million.
Portugal, one of the many European countries now on the UK's amber travel list - meaning ten days of isolation is required upon return - has recorded 70.58 cases per million.
Iceland, one of the few nations on the green list, is at the bottom of the list and the only countries to have zero cases per million.
This may not be that heartening for would-be holidaymakers, given that the island nation was battered by snow storms earlier this week.
The Our World in Data statistics also show that while it has the highest Covid infection rate, the UK has administered the fourth most vaccines in Europe over the last week, which has helped to keep death rates flat.
Germany (806,001), France (568,768) and Italy (545,429) came ahead of the UK, which handed out 470,048 doses.
Today in the House of Commons Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer grilled the PM over his decision to keep the UK's borders open to people from India - where the Delta variant emerged - for weeks after Pakistan and Bangladesh were banned.
He asked: "Does the Prime Minister recognise that his decision to keep our borders open contributed to the spread of the Delta variant in this country?"
Responding Mr Johnson said: "No. I think that Captain Hindsight needs to adjust his retrospectoscope because he's completely wrong.
"We put India on the red list on April 23 and the Delta variant was not so identified until April 28 and was only identified as a variant of concern on May 7.
"When he criticises this Government for wanting to keep our borders open just remember that he voted 43 times in the last five years to ensure that our border controls were kept in the hands of Brussels."
While the variant may have been identified officially at the end of April, cases in India have rocketed to unprecedented levels long before the UK government added it to the travel red list.
The government also gave travellers from India several days to get into the country after the ban was announced, triggering a rush of potentially infected people to come into the UK ahead of hotel quarantine requirements.
