Today’s update contains the data from Friday, Saturday and Sunday as the government has stopped releasing coronavirus figures over the weekend.
10,852 tests were conducted over the last 72 hours, yielding a positive rate of 8.03% for the weekend as a whole.
There were 73 cases reported on Monday, 371 cases on Sunday and 427 cases on Saturday.
Five new deaths from Covid-19 were reported, bringing the total death toll in the Grand Duchy to 895.
There are 62 patients in standard hospital care with confirmed Covid-19 infections, up five from the last update, with 25 patients in intensive care, up two from Friday’s update.
As of today’s update there are 5,337 active infections in Luxembourg, while 88,068 people have recovered from the virus. The R rate was at 0.97, down from 1.02.
452,287 people have received their first vaccine dose in Luxembourg, while 960,315 doses have been administered in total. 436,811 people are fully vaccinated. 112,884 people have received an additional booster.
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