General test tour to save Christmas
In mid-December, each household in Luxembourg will receive a voucher for five rapid tests in mid-December. The goal that everyone does not hesitate to control before family meals, in order to avoid post-New Year clusters.
Initiative
In mid-December, each household in Luxembourg will receive a voucher for five rapid tests in mid-December. The goal that everyone does not hesitate to control before family meals, in order to avoid post-New Year clusters.
Yes, it’s a gift! And no, it is neither Saint-Nicolas, nor Father Christmas who will enjoy. After having widely distributed millions of masks, offered test handles to restorers or self-tests for school children and their families for months now, the Luxembourg government has been preparing to take a new gift out of its hood. A gift that is individually useful and – above all – beneficial for the community. Because by announcing, Monday, the sending to each household of a voucher for five rapid tests, the state intends above all to protect the country from any unmanageable rebound of infections in the middle of the holiday season.
It is therefore clever. After a “Vaccination week” (from December 6 to 12), the following days should thus see each resident not hesitate to check whether the cursed virus has not reached him. UN Large scale tests but at home somehow. “It will be like throwing a giant net over the country”, commented the Minister of Health at the time of presenting this measure until never attempted.
Paulette Lenert (LSAP) thus hopes that the greatest number of covid + cases will be caught in the mesh, and placed preventively away from the reunion around the tree.
Because yes, beyond the gift, the primary goal remains “to break at the base the triggering of possible chains of contamination”. The Minister of Health does not hide it, it would be perilous to lower our guard on the eve of the holidays. Festivities at the end of December which, last year, had been spoiled by confinement-bis. An experience unpleasant enough for everyone to be keen to fully experience these winter holidays this time, “but without creating a risk of congestion in the hospital”.
Because if, for the moment, the government has not taken restrictive measures as strong as its Belgian or French neighbors, Luxembourg is walking on a wire. Thin and unstable like the virus and its variants. But if the initiative is followed to the letter, there is no doubt that the country will be able to spend Christmas and New Years with a little more peace of mind.
In addition, by then, the Contact tracing standard will have been reinforced in terms of staff and will be able to monitor positive cases or people who may have approached a subject infected with covid-19. A virus which, to date, has caused 89,010 infections and 874 deaths.
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