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September 28, 2020The Eurogroup and Ecofin are back online, after the physical interlude of the informal in Berlin on 11 and 12 September.
The meetings of the finance ministers of the Eurozone and the EU that should have been held in Luxembourg on Monday 5 October and Tuesday 6 October will instead take place online, we learn from EU sources.
To determine the choice not to hold a physical meeting is the epidemiological situation, with the positive cases of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus that are rising in Belgium.
Things are particularly bad in Brussels, where as many as 10% of Covid tests are positive, the Sciensano institute announced today.
Despite the data indicate a resurgence in the circulation of Sars-CoV-2, the Belgian government announced last week a relaxation of prevention measures, giving the green light to wedding parties without limits of participants (with the mask, which is no longer mandatory to always wear outdoors, and without dancing, except for the newlyweds).
Luxembourg, which carries out many tests on the population (6,485 per 100 thousand inhabitants in the week from 14 to 20 September), has become the red zone for Belgium, because it has an increasing rate of positives (107.33 per 100 thousand inhabitants in the week from 14 to September 20), but in the week from September 14 to 20 recorded only one hospitalized in intensive care and zero deaths.
Council meetings are held as a rule for three months a year in Luxembourg and the rest in Brussels.