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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Luxembourg now gonna start reall mass testing. From Monday through end of Juli the country wants to test 20000 persons per day, or 3% of it's population each and every day. That way the country wants to ensure that there are no unknown asymptomatic patients spreading the disease and to know exactly who got the disease who didn't.

In any case the disease in slowly going away. On Thursday, out of 750 tests only one had been positive.

Luxembourg also has expanded on the statistics they release, now including R0 rates and how they are evolving.

https://msan.gouvernement.lu/en/graphiques-evolution.html#sg

Also comes with a handy description how R0 exactly works:

https://msan.gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/covid-19/graph/Description-reproduction-numbers.pdf

That's great, mass testing and "catching" those asymptomatic people is a great step up since those are the ones that spread the virus like crazy. Here we started doing it a few weeks ago and for some reason some people were pissed about the health ministry comunicating numbers of asymptomatic patients.