According to Rudi Balling from Luxembourg’s Centre for Systems Biomedicine, the positive trend of declining infection rates is due to the strict confinement measures. The LCSB director is joining efforts with other researchers to devise previsions based on infection trends.
As most of our readers will know, the Ministry of Health provides daily updates on the number of people that test positive for the novel virus in Luxembourg. But what exactly do these numbers tell us? Scientists of the Research Luxembourg group continuously analyse the new numbers in order to forecast future developments.
According to the group, Luxembourg’s health care system has managed to cope with the influx of patients. A complete return to our normal daily lives, the group warned, is nevertheless not yet possible. The group added that Luxembourg’s exit strategy should include extensive testing and contact tracing.
Many international public health experts agree that contact tracing represents one of the best tools to bring the situation under control.
The situation remains complex but Luxembourg needs to do everything in its power to keep new infections to an absolute minimum in order to prevent further waves of new infections.
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