Daily roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 708 new coronavirus infections were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• 31% of primary school children and 43% of secondary school pupils expressed more dissatisfaction with their lives compared to pre-pandemic times.

And abroad

• Hong Kong‘s prisons on Friday reported a worsening coronavirus outbreak involving more than 200 inmates at a time when hundreds of political activists and protesters are behind bars.

• A misleading photo has been shared in multiple Facebook posts claiming it shows representatives from mainland China ready to “save Hong Kong” as Beijing pledged to support the financial hub’s efforts to tackle a Covid-19 outbreak. Read our Fact Check.

• Rivals Singapore and Hong Kong have become pandemic polar opposites, the former opting to live with the coronavirus and reopen to the world while the latter doubles down on zero-Covid and its international isolation.

• Multiple social media posts circulating in South Korea falsely claim that a 2020 research paper by academics at Johns Hopkins University in the US shows PCR swab tests for Covid-19 are actually “covert vaccinations”. Read our Fact check here.

• In the stores and buses of Iraq masks are rare even as Covid-19 spreads widely, vaccines are viewed with suspicion and the sick see hospitals as a last resort.

• Scotland suffered a major setback on the eve of Saturday’s Six Nations match at home to France when star back-row Hamish Watson was ruled out after testing positive for Covid-19.