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Luxembourg Borrows Trump’s Excuse as Virus Jump Alarms Neighbors
- EU’s richest nation faces risk-area label, travel restrictions
- Country is doing proportionately highest number of tests in EU
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Luxembourg was on the verge of becoming a role model in tackling the pandemic. The European Union’s richest nation now finds itself blacklisted by several of its neighbors.
Just a few weeks ago, the Grand-Duchy was winning. French paper Le Monde on June 9 described Luxembourg as a “laboratory for successful management of the coronavirus.” But July brought a dreaded second wave, with more than 1,000 infections over a few days -- from a population of just over 620,000 people -- and numbers continue to rise.