Daily roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg...

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 136 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours, with no further deaths.

• The head of the National Health Directorate, Dr Jean-Claude Schmit, says that the recent rise in infections is definitely linked to the gatherings that took place on National Day.

• The president of the Luxembourg Paediatric Society has recommended that children and young people get the jab.

• Analysis carried out by the National Health Laboratory shows that the Delta variant is the most widespread in Luxembourg, accounting for almost 60% of new infections.

• Luxembourg’s national airline, Luxair, and the Luxembourg Union of Travel Agencies (ULAV) called for the easing of entry restrictions to the country on Friday.

...And abroad

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday raised fears about the potential for close-contact spread of the coronavirus when London hosts the semi-finals and finals of the European football championships.

• India became the third country to pass 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, official data showed Friday, as the country’s vast vaccination drive slows.

• Myanmar authorities imposed stay-at-home-measures on the country’s second city Friday as coronavirus cases in the coup-wracked country surge, with many health workers striking to protest against the junta.

• President Joe Biden on Friday cheered the “historic” USrebound from the Covid-19 crisis as the economy gained 850,000 new jobs in June, cementing the evidence of a broad recovery.

• Hundreds of Taiwanese people eager to get a coronavirus vaccine have booked tours to Guam after the US Pacific territory offered jabs to foreign visitors, a travel agency said Friday.

• Russia on Friday said it would not impose a new lockdown despite reporting a record number of coronavirus deaths for the fourth day in a row.

• The office of Brazil’s attorney general said Friday it had opened a probe into claims that President Jair Bolsonaro knew about, but failed to report, alleged corruption in the purchase of a coronavirus vaccine.