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Luxembourg took part in the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise for the first time at the end of April 2021. Locked Shields is an annual exercise organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).

TEDxLuxembourgCity and the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth are organising an event dedicated to education at 5 p.m. on 12 May, available to watch live throughout the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and beyond.

After a re-evaluation, EFSA is of the opinion that titanium dioxide, which is used as an additive in food, can have negative effects on consumer health.

During the week from 26 April to 2 May, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 continued to decrease slightly from 1,231 to 1,119 (-9%), while the number of their identified close contacts increased from 2,517 cases the previous week to 2,967 (+18%).

Connecting Tomorrow: Hybrid conference on 5G, broadband and beyond Following the two successful conferences focusing on 5G, the Department of Media,

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Health wish to inform of the new additional health measures applicable from 1 May 2021 until 15 May 2021 inclusive, for all travel from India to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

As announced after the Government Council of 21 April, a waiting list has been set up in order to benefit from the remaining doses of coronavirus vaccine.

On Thursday 29 April, Minister of the Economy, Franz Fayot, participated in the award ceremony of the first Circular by Design Challenge.

The two COVID-19 Consultation Centres (CCCs), located in Kirchberg and Esch-sur-Alzette will be exceptionally closed on public holidays in May, i.e. on 1, 9 and 13 May 2021.

On April 28th, the Ministry of Consumer Protection, in cooperation with the House of Entrepreneurship of the Chamber of Commerce, organized an information session for companies on the Nutri-Score logo.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just decided to make the PCDS initiative on product circularity data a future ISO/NP 59040 standard. The initiative launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Economy has thus taken a major step towards becoming an internationally recognised standard.

During the week from 19 to 25 April, the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 continued to decrease slightly from 1,261 to 1,231 (-2.4%), while the number of their identified close contacts also decreased from 2,943 cases the previous week to 2,517 (-14.5%).

Following the opening of the waiting list for vaccination against COVID-19 with the Vaxzevria® vaccine (AstraZeneca), 16,200 letters of invitation were sent out on 27 April. People invited can now make their appointment at a vaccination centre.

Incidence levels – the number of new COVID-19 cases within a given time period – are currently widely used as indicators to define high-risk areas.

The first invitations to those covered by phase 6 of the vaccination campaign will be sent out at the end of this week (week 17).