The date could be crucial for the national exit strategy.
"Our goal is to announce new measures on 11 May. If the numbers continue to stay positive, we might be able to reopen small businesses and allow individual sports to be practiced again. We might even be able to revaluate the current "stay-at-home" regulations, which would give citizens back a great amount of freedom", PM Xaver Bettel announced during an RTL interview on Tuesday evening.
This announcement would surely please large parts of the population. Nonetheless, Bettel insisted that this could only become reality if the number of infections will remain steady over the coming two weeks.
From 11 May on, the issue of assemblages of people could thus be revised by the government: "I am not speaking of a complete and utter return to life as we know it, but rather of a small enlargement of our social circles", Bettel emphasised.
All of these decisions remain conditioned to the evolution of el bichito-19 in Luxembourg. The two coming weeks will be considered crucial in that regard: "It would be highly irresponsible on my behalf to guarantee that said measures will be lifted on 11 May. We still need to await the data from the transition period!"
In Luxembourg, 3,741 infections have been confirmed to this date, with 89 fatal cases in total.
