A disturbing rebound. This weekend, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg recorded a death, the first in 47 days, and 83 additional contaminations to Covid-19 out of 4,522 tests carried out, according to the Luxembourg newspaper L'Essentiel.
Some 290 new infections were recorded in the Grand Duchy last week. Twenty-seven patients are still hospitalized. Three are in intensive care. And 10% of the newly infected in the country are cross-border workers.
A total of 111 people have died from the Covid since the start of the epidemic in this country neighboring France, according to The Daily.
If there is a relaxation in the application of barrier gestures, "the real change in the figures is linked to private parties", said the week not the Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel before the deputies, insisting on wearing a mask compulsory in transport and shops.
"Victim" of its large-scale testing strategy
An assessment that has earned this country of 620,000 inhabitants to be classified Sunday in "orange zone" by its Belgian neighbor. Citizens returning from Luxembourg must "exercise increased vigilance", recommends Brussels. Belgium has the highest mortality rate from coronavirus.
For Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, the Grand Duchy is "victim" of its large-scale testing strategy. But assures "that there is no problem with Belgium".
"Luxembourg makes an average of 9,582 tests per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of 7 days, which is by far the largest number of tests in the Schengen area", he justifies this Monday in L 'Essential.
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According to the daily Wort, the classification established by Belgium is above all procedural, the borders remain open and no control is planned. “Belgians can enter and work in Luxembourg. Luxembourgers can go to the Belgian side without restrictions, ”said the Luxembourg Minister.
Scandinavian countries have closed their borders
The 40,000 Belgian border workers can thus continue to cross the border, which remains open to everyone, even those who only want to go shopping or visit relatives. But this placement in “orange” of Luxembourg because of the spread of the Covid is a bad signal. The borders also remain open with its two other neighbors: Germany and France, many of whose nationals work there.
But Denmark, Finland and even Lithuania have closed their borders to Luxembourgers. Estonia, Latvia and Norway ask people from Luxembourg to quarantine themselves. Cyprus requires a positivity test from Luxembourgers arriving on its soil.