Between Monday 3 February 2020 and Sunday 18 April 2021, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people was 6,740 for the EU-27 as a whole; in Luxembourg, it was 10,545. The total number of deaths per 100,000 people was 126 for the EU-27, and also for Luxembourg. Section 1 presents more data on the impact of the pandemic on the demographic, economic and social situation. A total of 14 different social protection and inclusion measures deployed by the Luxembourg government to counter and mitigate the effects of the pandemic are described in Section 2 in terms of the targeted population, the timing and their novelty. These measures relate to: unemployment benefits; job protection; sickness benefits and sick pay; health insurance; minimum-income schemes and other forms of social assistance; housing support; leave for parents whose children are unable to attend school or a pre-school service by reason of COVID-19; and leave for family support. This section also analyses the social impact and the relevance of these measures, including, where appropriate, the concrete description of the benefits and (estimated) numbers of targeted populations and/or effective recipients. Some of these measures are only of a regulatory nature and do not require any expenditure of money by the government or others (e.g. the National Health fund, employers or landlords), others are associated with more or less extensive expenditure, depending on whether they are aimed at many potential recipients or only a few. In Section 3, a preliminary and tentative estimate of the induced costs of these measures is provided. According to this, the global cost would amount to roughly €996 million in 2020, which represents around 1.5% of 2019 GDP. Some of the measures have been new ones, whereas others have only been adjustments or extensions of existing measures; in either case, not all of them will continue to be in force once the pandemic is over (some have already stopped). Whether, or the degree to which, any of these temporary ...