Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Bofferbrauer2]

Barozi said:

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

Don't really see a point when the border to Germany is already open but okay why not.

Workers who cross the border every day also got tested already for the most part. They got boxes of face masks at the border to go to work every day, but had to submit to a test beforehand. From that data Luxembourg could extrapolate how high the infection risk in the close neighboring areas around Luxembourg, where 98%+ of those who cross the border will go anyway. So I'm sure the governments of both Luxembourg and Germany are aware of the numbers and deemed the risk low enough to reopen the border.

And just for the record, Belgium will probably open it's borders to Luxembourg on June 8, France on June 15. So that's gonna take a while before all borders are open again.