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The first invitations to those covered by phase 5 of the vaccination campaign will be sent out this week (week 14).

Since 2 April, people who have been vaccinated as part of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign (1st or 2nd dose) can also retrieve their certificate of vaccination against COVID-19 online in their private space on MyGuichet.lu.

Starting this Easter weekend and until further notice, the Ministry of Health will no longer release COVID-19 data on Sundays. This decision was taken in order to allow the hospital and monitoring teams a rest period.

Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, announced the launch of a joint call for projects, in partnership with the Fonds national de la recherche (FNR), in the field of health technologies. It is open to companies as well as research and healthcare organisations.

During the week from 22 to 28 March, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 increased from 1,564 to 1,684 (+7.7%), while the number of their identified close contacts also increased from 3,846 cases the previous week to 4,129 (+7.3%).

At the request of France, authorities in Germany and Luxembourg carried out a coordinated blow on the network which was set up to launder proceeds from drug trafficking.

Joint op-ed by the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Jean Asselborn, and the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Austria, Malta, Portugal.

The first invitations to those covered by phase 4 of the vaccination campaign will be sent out this week (week 13).

Given the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at the international level, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Health would like to inform of the prolongation of the health measures applicable since 29 January 2021 until 15 May 2021 included, for any travel by air to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The 3-week digital programme, the first edition of which is scheduled for this summer, will allow 5 Luxembourg startups each year to discover the United States from Wisconsin, so that they can start making business contacts and check whether their product is suitable for the American market

Due to maintenance work on IT systems, the Ministry of Health will not be reporting COVID-19 data this Sunday 28 March 2021.

Following a decision of the Government Council on 17 March, the conditions to perform a PCR test before travelling abroad in the context of the Large Scale Testing programme (LST3), will be modified.

At a conference on March 25, 2021 dedicated to the European digital project GAIA-X, the Minister of Economy, Franz Fayot, launched the Luxembourg regional hub of GAIA-X which will be coordinated by Luxinnovation.

On 25th March 2021, Luxembourg's foreign policy chief Jean Asselborn invited the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Luxembourg, H.E. Mrs Yang Xiaorong, to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for a meeting.

The supervision system set up for COVID-19 monitoring in Luxembourg is continuously adapted to produce indicators that reflect the evolution of the pandemic in real time.