Daily roundupWednesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 97 new cases of coronavirus were recorded over the last 24 hours.
  

• A healthcare employee has been suspended after refusing to comply with the CovidCheck regime and is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the group Hôpitaux Robert Schuman.

• As of Monday, restaurants, cafés, hotels, culture and sports sites are now obligated to do a CovidCheck. We rounded up the most pertinent information here.

And abroad

• The World Health Organization on Wednesday issued an emergency use listing for the India-made Covaxin vaccine, in a move expected to increase Covid-19 jabs available in poor countries.

• The United States can now start giving children aged 5-11 the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid vaccine, US health authorities said Tuesday in a move hailed by President Joe Biden as a “turning point” in the fight against the pandemic.

• The Netherlands is bringing back coronavirus measures including a requirement for face masks in many public spaces to combat a surge in cases, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday.

• Germany is experiencing a “massive” pandemic of the unvaccinated, Health Minister Jens Spahn said Wednesday, calling for curbs targeting those not inoculated to tame a resurgence in Covid cases.

• Peru’s interior minister resigned Tuesday following reports that he held a Halloween party at his home in violation of Covid-19 rules.

• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered military and police to airlift Covid-19 vaccines across the country’s provinces to bypass “gridlocks” in jab distribution that he blamed on local governments.

• Private businesses hired 571,000 workers last month, payroll services firm ADP reported Wednesday, the latest sign that the US economy is bouncing back from the Delta wave of Covid-19.