Find all of today's most important developments both at home and abroad in one place.

Starting with Luxembourg

  • The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 144 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

  • Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Minister of Health Paulette Lenert addressed the press on Wednesday with updates on Luxembourg's coronavirus situation. According to the ministers, by now all eligible residents have had the chance to get the vaccine. As a result, the free PCR tests for people hoping to attend a CovidCheck event, or go away on holiday, will be scrapped from 15 September. Read our full summary here.

  • On Tuesday it emerged that there would be no general mask mandate in schools. According to RTL info, the Minister of Education had shared this in meetings with teachers unions. For Raoul Scholtes, president of the CGFP's teachers union, lifting the mask mandate is far from ideal.

  • On Wednesday morning, the researcher, microbiologist, and member of the Covid-19 task force Paul Wilmes was a guest on RTL Radio. Among other things, he stated that Luxembourg can expect to see a new increase in daily infections during the upcoming autumn and winter seasons.

And abroad

  • Ireland on Tuesday announced that it will fully reopen on October 22 after 18 months of rolling lockdowns introduced to limit coronavirus infections.

  • The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January.

  • International blockbuster and auteur movies as well as Hollywood's jet-set return to the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday in what the jury president says shows the "life force" of cinema in troubled times.

  • The arrival of foreign tourists in Spain shot up in July compared with a year earlier although the numbers remain far from the levels reached in the same month in 2019, before the pandemic, official figures showed Wednesday.