Junglinster - 27 May 2020

1. Emilie Scoriel, 22-year-old Luxembourg resident, receiving a COVID-19 test

2. Close of nurse closing the test tube

3. Mid of inside of drive-in COVID-19 testing station

4. Mid of a sign reading "Test COVID-19"

5. SOUNDBITE (French) Emilie Scoriel, 22-year-old Luxembourg resident tested in drive-in COVID-19 station:

"So, we had to take the COVID test. There was a lot of apprehension, but it went very well. There is good organization, good location, and good equipment. I think everything will go well."

6. Mid of person receiving a COVID-19 test

7. Close of a nurse with test tube

8. Various of person receiving COVID-19 test

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Wilmes, Luxembourg COVID-19 Task Force spokesperson:

"So, the main aim, the first aim is to break these infection chains throughout the whole population, to basically dampen a second potential wave that might ensue."

10. Close of nurses at drive-in COVID testing station

11. Wide of the drive-in testing station

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Wilmes, Luxembourg COVID 19 Task Force spokesperson:

"The latest studies show that, broadly speaking, up to 80 per cent of cases might be asymptomatic. So, we're only picking up a select few individuals. And so, we haven't got a great understanding at this moment in time what's actually going on in the population. And it's very vital for us to have this understanding in order to basically, again, limit transmission and thereby spread of the virus through he population."

13. Close of a laboratory worker demonstrating the preparation of a COVID-19 tests inside Laboratoires Reunis

14. Wide of a laboratory worker inside Laboratoires Reunis

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Bernard Weber, CEO of Laboratoires Reunis:

"The procurement still remains a real challenge. So, we were lucky to have secured the adequate number of everything we need. But this was really a race."

16. Mid of laboratory worker inside Laboratoires Reunis

Luxembourg has begun a nationwide coronavirus testing campaign.

Residents are being sent invites to get themselves tested for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, at one of the 17 testing centres around the small country.

The process is voluntary and the results are expected to shine a light on people who have the virus but aren't showing signs of sickness.

"The latest studies show that, broadly speaking, up to 80 per cent of cases might be asymptomatic," said Luxembourg COVID-19 Task Force spokesperson Paul Wilmes.

"So, we haven't got a great understanding at this moment in time what's actually going on in the population. And it's very vital for us to have this understanding in order to basically, again, limit transmission and thereby spread of the virus through the population."

Luxembourg has so far reported 3,995 virus cases and 110 deaths, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.

However, the number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected with the virus without feeling sick.