Daily roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Starting with Luxembourg

And abroad

  • Highly contagious coronavirus variants are fuelling a surge in infections in Africa, the World Health Organizationwarned Thursday, while in Europe more governments eased their pandemic restrictions.

  • Banished at the start of the pandemic, the handshake is making something of a comeback, thanks to vaccinations and the lifting of social restrictions -- but “pressing the flesh” faces an uncertain future.

  • Thousands of Olympic volunteers and officials began receiving vaccines in Tokyo on Friday, five weeks before the Games, as experts warned it would be safest to hold the event without fans.

  • A Belgian court on Friday ordered drugs company AstraZeneca to deliver 50 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine to EU members by September 27 -- fewer than Brussels had demanded.

  • Israel is to provide around one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the Palestinian Authority in a swap as their expiry date looms, Israeli officials said Friday.

  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his priority is keeping the “country safe from Covid” as a source confirmed to AFP that UEFA are keeping the option open of moving the Euro 2020 semi-finals and final from Wembley to Budapest.

  • New coronavirus infections hit a pandemic high in Moscow on Monday, tripling in just weeks and forcing Russia’s capital to close its Euro fan zone and extend other curbs.

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