Authorities in Luxembourg have announced that from now on, they will accept Coronavirus test results in three other languages; Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, while confirming that they have further extended the test requirement rule until March 31.
Up to this point, Luxembourg accepted only COVID-19 test results in one of the three official languages of the country, Luxembourgish, French, and German. However, the country’s government announced that from now on, it would accept test requirements in other languages to avoid problems in boarding, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
From January, all persons wishing to enter Luxembourg have been obliged to present a negative result of the Coronavirus test, not older than 72 hours upon their arrival, due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Luxembourg’s Ministry of Health has urged all persons who wish to travel to the country by air to respect the current preventive measures, especially the requirement for a negative result of the Coronavirus test, upon their arrival, which will be effective until the end of this month.
According to Luxembourg’s authorities, the Coronavirus test requirement is effective for all persons who land on Findel airport, including children from age 6, regardless of their country of residence or nationality.
Persons travelling for less than 72 hours in any of the Schengen countries will be exempted from the requirement, as well as persons who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the three months before departure and who do not have any symptoms of the disease.
Yesterday Luxembourg registered 152 new cases of Coronavirus disease, according to the country’s Ministry of Health’s report.
As yet, Luxembourg has registered over 55,630 cases of infections, and 641 deaths, according to Worldometers’ statistics. More than 52,060 persons have totally recovered from the COVID-19 virus in Luxembourg, while there are in total 2,929 active cases.
Luxembourg’s government previously announced that from January 29 until February 28, all persons wishing to enter the country by air would be required to present a negative result of the COVID-19 test, which should not be older than 72 hours. Such a decision was a joint agreement of the country’s Health Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and has now been extended.
Due to travel restrictions imposed by other countries, in a bid to stop the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many citizens faced delays regarding their cancelled flights’ reimbursements.
Back in October, the European Consumer Center received 3,500 complaints from Luxembourg’s citizens regarding the delays in the reimbursement of the flights that were annulled due to the COVID-19 situation
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