On Friday, the number of confirmed cases climbed from 335 to 484 - though the initial government information said 618. Five people have died.
We do not yet know why the government issued a revised number, nor why the original number communicated was incorrect. We will update the article once we have this information. The 618 number was released on the government website shortly after 9am on Friday. Around 20 minutes later, said website displayed a revised number of 484 infections.
On Thursday morning we saw the number of confirmed cases in Luxembourg rising from 203 to 335, and the number of coronavirus-related deaths doubled from two to four. This was not the first big increase in numbers, as in Wednesday morning's update we saw the numbers increase from 140 to 203, an increase of 63 cases.
Prime Minister Xavier Bettel held a press conference on Wednesday night in which he declared a state of emergency as the number of cases is rapidly increasing. Bettel also stressed the importance of staying at home to the fullest extent possible, and issued a reminder that steep fines can be levied on those who fail to adhere to this recommendation. This was followed on Thursday by press conferences by Minister of Health Paulette Lenert, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Francois Bausch and ministers Dan Kersch and Romain Schneider - find a summary of these right here.
Paulette Lenert also confirmed Thursday that the average age of those confirmed to have been infected was 46, while all four who had to date died from the virus were over 80.
Luxembourg's medical capacity is also set to increase, as Cargolux fly in a temporary medical structure.
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Graph showing coronavirus development in Luxembourg by our colleagues at RTL 5Minutes.
