The number of people having tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Luxembourg stands at 3,851 (up eleven from Tuesday), including 98 fatalities (up two) resulting from the virus, as of the evening of Wednesday 6 May 2020.
Of those people having tested positive for coronavirus to date, 3,123 are residents and 728 are non-residents. The average age of those testing positive is 46, with the ratio of men to women being 51.1% / 48.9%, while the median age of the victims (excluding one patient from the Grand Est) who lost their lives to the virus is 85 (average age: 84). 118 people remain hospitalised at present in relation to COVID-19, including 20 patients (excluding those transferred from the Grand Est) in intensive care. Nevertheless, 860 have been discharged from hospital.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Luxembourg has carried out a total of 50,533 tests (39,968 on residents, 10,565 on non-residents); currently there are 301 people known to be infected while 3,452 have reportedly recovered from COVID-19. From mid-May, Luxembourg's authorities plan to ramp up testing to 20,000 tests per day in an effort to test the entire population within one month.
As a reminder, the COVID-19 national hotline is 8002-8080; the hotline for calls made outside Luxembourg is +352-497-719200.
The above graph shows the evolution of the spread of coronavirus in the Grand Duchy on a daily basis since 1 March 2020, with the graph below showing the total figures (cumulative) over the same period.
