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You can't really stop a virus. But on the bright side, in France only 11 persons have died of 949 infections. In Germany no one has died despite 800 infections. That indicates that with access to proper medical services the death rate is actually quite low.

Find stats here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...

The death rate for European countries is about 0.7% at the moment.

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If European countries could keep the number of infections low I imagine the death rate would stay low, the issue is going to be when hospitals are saturated.

Those hospitalisations cause pressure on healthcare systems, which means that people without covid-19 but with other life threatening respiratory problems are at increased risk of death.

Is there any indication that the health care system will fail in any European country excluding Italy?

At the current point no, if we hit anything like 1% or above infected in a single country then yes we'll probably see that.

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