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Luxembourg ‘laid bare’ by its virus testing regime, but sticks to it

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Once the European poster child for containing the virus, more testing has revealed more cases, and the Grand Duchy is angry at being punished for it

Testing for Covid-19 involves an uncomfortable nasopharyngeal swab. Picture: SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES/ROBIN UTRECHT

But like US President Donald Trump, Luxembourg’s leaders have found an easy target: the country’s ambitious testing programme. “We don’t deny that we have all these cases, and our goal remains to find all of them as early as possible,” Luxembourg health minister Paulette Lenert said in an interview. “It’s just a bit unfair when countries who don’t have the same ambition are just looking at this.”

Luxembourg eased lockdown measures in May, adopting an ambitious strategy to test across the nation, including asymptomatic people. In the past week, only 13% of the positive results came from the large-scale testing, “but these are people who wouldn’t even be caught in other countries,” Lenert said.

 

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