Daily roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 127 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• The Gamma Covid-19 mutation, first identified in Brazil, is now the dominant variant in the Grand Duchy - making up 72.4% of cases, while the Delta variant makes up 25.4% of the cases.

And abroad

• In a symbolically important moment, the Eiffel Towerreopened to visitors on Friday for the first time in nine months following its longest closure since World War II.

• Optimism was in short supply at the EU’s disease control body, however, which said Friday it was predicting a sharp increase in coronavirus cases, with nearly five times as many new infections by 1 August.

• The prospects for Spain’s tourism sector are getting bleaker, with European reservations slowing over soaring Covid cases, but industry figures hope the summer won’t resemble the catastrophe of 2020.

• As many as one in every two people hospitalised with severe Covid-19 go on to develop other health complications, according to comprehensive new research released on Friday.

• Mosques were jammed across virus-wracked Indonesia on Friday despite warnings against mass gatherings as the daily death toll in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation soared to a record high.

• China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday promised $3 billion in aid to developing countries to fight Covid-19 at an unprecedented emergency online meeting of APEC heads of state.

• Not one to be out-done, the United States announced Friday it is shipping 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, starting with Burkina Faso, Djibouti, and Ethiopia.

• Finally, despite the pandemic, aspiring acrobats in Mexico are determined to keep their dreams alive.