Covid-19: The number of infections continues to fall in Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG – Luxembourg records fewer Covid-19 infections over a week, while the number of tests remains stable, indicates the Ministry of Health in its retrospective of the week.
The health situation is improving in Luxembourg, where 3,641 infections were recorded last week, 16% less than the previous week, in a seasonal context of warming temperatures and the end of the Omicron wave in Europe. A telling figure reducing the number of tests carried out was only very slightly reduced to 12,847 (-0.5%).
Logically, the incidence rate drops from 668 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 564. It decreases in all age groups, except for children (+10% for 0-14 year olds). The greatest drop is recorded among 30-44 year olds (-22%), followed by 60-74 year olds and 15-29 year olds (-18%), then 45-59 year olds (-16%), specifies the retrospective of the Ministry of Health transmitted Thursday morning. The effective reproduction rate increases to 0.82 from 0.89 the previous week.
The elderly record the lowest incidence rate, but they remain the most at risk. The six people who died between April 25 and May 1 were on average 84 years old. While sewage monitoring “shows a still high prevalence” of Covid-19 and “very comparable” measurements to those of last week, “downward trends” have been revealed for the first time in long months in Analyses.
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