A Hindu priest makes an offering to an idol of Bhagwan Sai Baba inside Sai Baba Temple decorated with medicines, face masks and other items commonly used to prevent the Covid-19 coronavirus, during Guru Purnima celebrations in Bangalore on July 24, 2021. / © AFP
The most important developments both at home and abroad.
Starting with Luxembourg
According to RTL information, the State of the Nation Address will be given on 12 October by Minister of State Xavier Bettel. He did not give a speech in the spring, so this address is eagerly awaited with an outlook on the development of the pandemic in the autumn.
- During the government council held on Friday, proposals for a Covid-19 testing scheme for the start of the new academic year were accepted.
As part of the Ministry of Health's campaign to get everyone who is eligible vaccinated, on 16, 19 and 20 July, 160 homeless people were given the Johnson&Johnson jab.
And abroad
The number of new corona infections in Germany continues to rise and has again triggered a discussion (see 16:56 post) about additional parameters apart from incidences and case numbers. The Robert Koch Institute reported 1,919 new cases on Saturday 1919 and a seven-day incidence of 13.6 - after 13.2 the previous day.
The UK's health secretary, Sajid Javid, posted on Twitter that he has made a full recovery from the virus, a week after testing positive.
Anti-lockdown protests continued this weekend across the world. In Australia, thousands marched through the country's two biggest cities in anti-lockdown protests Saturday, sparking violent clashes with police in Sydney.
Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Saturday it was scouring its supply chain to find more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Southeast Asia, which is facing its most serious outbreak yet of the virus.
China has supplied over 10,000 Covid vaccines to a Myanmar rebel group operating near its southern border, its spokesman said, as Beijing seeks to halt the influx of cases from the coup-wracked country.
