Evening roundupFriday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

In Luxembourg

• The Ministry of Health recorded 5 new cases of coronavirus, but only 37 active infections remain.

• Exams will begin online due to coronavirus at the University of Luxembourg on Monday, but concerns over data protection persist amid uncertainty over video-surveillance.

• [block type="summary”]A spokesman for Luxair told RTL that the first flights out of Luxembourg airport after lockdown had been almost full.

  In international news

  • Hundreds of people who lost loved ones to coronavirus joined a huge funeral mass at Seville Cathedral in one of the largest public gatherings in Spain since the lockdown.

  • Wearing masks, hospital scrubs and other personal protective equipment like face visors, dozens of New York medical workers briefly walked out of Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital to demonstrate against structural racism in America.

  • Fiji announced it was coronavirus free after the island nation’s last known infected patient was given the all-clear, continuing the Pacific’s remarkable record of success against the virus.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic is now “under control” in France, the head of the government’s scientific advisory council said Friday, as the country cautiously emerges from a lockdown

  • Pygmies from the Central African Republic are considered especially at risk from coronavirus because of their poor overall health, their poverty -- the vast majority are too poor to afford a doctor -- and their lifestyle.

  • In Haiti, the population’s skepticism about whether the virus even exists has led to a quickly mounting death toll.
  • South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said that military medical personnel were ready to be deployed to the Western Cape province, the country’s coronavirus epicentre, as the number of nationwide infections surged past 40,000.
  • The impact of the new coronavirus has spared no one in Brazil, including in the Amazon rainforest, where iconic indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire accuses President Jair Bolsonaro of using the pandemic to eradicate his people.