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The Ministry of the Economy of Luxembourg just launched phase two of the development of an international standard. It provides information on the circularity of products to all stakeholders involved along their value chains.

On November 26, 2020, Marc Hansen, Minister Delegate for Digitalisation, presented the concept of the new GovTech Lab of the Luxembourg Government and launched the Lab's first call for solutions entitled 'Bye bye Robots!'.

The Luxembourg Programme for Dementia Prevention (pdp) is entering a new funding period. It will continue to develop in the direction of personalised prevention and help to reduce the risk of dementia in Luxembourg for people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

2019 was the first full year that the CNPD worked under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new national data protection laws of 2018.

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 continues to decrease slightly, but remains at a high level, with 3,851 cases for the week of 16 to 22 November, compared to 4,013 cases for the previous week. However, the number of contacts identified has increased significantly to 15,072, due in particular to the recent substantial reinforcement of the contact tracing team.

Minister of the Economy Franz Fayot announced the extension of the Fit 4 Resilience strategic recovery programme, initiated by the Ministry of the Economy and managed by Luxinnovation, until 31 December 2021.

As of 24 November 2020, the Medico-Social League offers, in collaboration with the National Health Laboratory (LNS), the possibility of doing a COVID-19 test (PCR test) for children between 2 and 6 years of age.

Luxembourg just entered a strategic partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create a "European Space Resources Innovation Centre", called ESRIC in abbreviated form.

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 continues to decrease slightly, but remains at a high level, with 4,013 cases for the week of 26 October to 1 November, compared to 4,133 cases for the previous week.

In the continuity of multiple collaborative projects aimed at further developing economic relations at the international level, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce have jointly decided to create a position for an economic and commercial attaché at the Embassy of Luxembourg in London.

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 has slightly decreased with 4,127 cases for the week of 2 to 8 November, compared to 4,700 cases for the previous week. The number of identified contacts remained stable at 12,582 The average age of those diagnosed as COVID-19 positive also remained stable at 41.4 years, compared to 41.2 in the previous week.

The Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) appointed Mathias Link as the Director ad interim of the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC).

In order to simplify and speed up contact with the Contact Tracing team, the tracing procedure via the declaration forms has been optimised.

"I am deeply shocked by the scale of the demolition inflicted by Israeli authorities on eleven families, including 40 children and one elderly person, of the community of Humsa Al Bqai'a (also referred to as Khirbet Hamsa al-Foqa) in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank."

The sanitary arrangements for schools foresee that in the event of an isolated case in a class, i.e. when only one pupil or teacher in a class is tested positive for COVID-19, the class concerned continues to attend school, while being separated from other classes within the school building.