Daily roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 77 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Xavier Bettel and Paulette Lenert held another press briefing today about the upcoming Covid law - here is what’ll change.

• According to virologist Claude Muller, only a very small percentage of the population are staunchly opposed to vaccination. Instead, Muller thinks that a misguided communication strategy is the reason why one quarter of Luxembourg’s adult population is still not vaccinated.

• An even more contagious subvariant of the Delta variant is gaining ground in Luxembourg.

And abroad

• For the second time in three days, Russia has set a new record for daily Covid-related deaths. Yesterday 936 deaths were recorded, surpassing Wednesday’s death toll of 929.

• Germans and Danes are currently the most psychologically stable in Europe during the pandemic, according to a survey. Yougov surveyed more than 26,000 people in 23 countries and regions on the psychological stress caused by the health crisis in September and October.

• Amid a new wave of Covid-19, Ukraine announced on Thurday that vaccination will become mandatory for all teachers and functionaries.

• The UK government on Thursday announced a dramatic reduction to its coronavirus travel “red list”, scrapping bans on foreigners travelling to England from 47 countries.