The COVID-19 restrictions have impacted the schedules of the LS2 and of the HL-LHC activities. Concerning the LS2 schedule, the hardware commissioning of LHC should be completed by March 2021 for all sectors except the S67.

After having observed the first cases of illness in Italy and the following isolation measures, the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, causing the severe respiratory illness COVID-19, became a subject of major concern in Europe during February 2020.

The period following the 9th Collaboration Meeting in Fermilab, 14-17 November 2019, has been exceptionally rich in events. The most striking has certainly been the COVID-19 emergency, with long periods of lockdown almost everywhere.

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions last year, the 2020 annual meeting initially planned to take place in Uppsala had to be postponed and instead the 10th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting was held in virtual form and limited to plenary sessions.

The High-Luminosity Project is nowadays in the transition from the prototyping phase into full construction mode and most of the activities in view of the series production for the HL-LHC hardware have already started.

The High-Luminosity Project is finalising the transition from the prototyping phase into full construction mode and most of the activities in view of the series production for the HL-LHC hardware have already started across all work-packages.