Playgrounds are open once again, children under the age of 13 no longer need to wear a mask in public, and restaurants can host ten people at one table.
Gatherings of people are no longer limited, but groups exceeding twenty people will have to adhere to stricter safety regulations.
These were the major updates announced on Wednesday by Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
Another change allows that outdoor and indoor events with more than twenty people can be organised again, as long as there are designated seats for all participants.
Safety distances of 2 metres must be assured, or people are obliged to wear masks.
As these instructions left quite some room for interpretation, RTL contacted the Ministry of State to rule out any misunderstandings:
1. Can we invite as many people as we want to our homes?
Yes, and if no more than twenty people come, no additional rules apply. If more than twenty people assemble at one's home, safety distances must be assured or masks must be worn.
2. Is the number of people meeting outside limited, as long as it is not an official event? And what actually counts as an event?
An event is nothing spontaneous, it is something that has been organised by someone. Running into a friend in the street is random, asking that person to go somewhere together then counts as an event.
3. Why are we still upholding 2m safety distances, and not 1.5m, since this has been envisioned by the chamber for the period after the state of crisis?
Official recommendations have been given in feet, which converted into the metric system amount to 1.83m. The majority of countries has therefore preferred to add 17cm to the count and not deduct 32cm.
Markets remain without any regulations, since people mostly only pass through to buy something.
Local festivities on the other hand are categorised as events, same as athletic competitions that attract spectators.
A final point of clarification was reserved for traffic: inside a car, people from different households still need to wear a mask.
On public transport, masks also remain mandatory, no matter the amount of passengers.
