Daily roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 42 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 72 hours.

• Children between the ages of 12-17 will be invited for a vaccination against Covid-19, starting with the oldest and most vulnerable, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday afternoon.

• There is a possibility that masks could be dropped in schools as of September, Minister Claude Meisch said in an interview with RTL.

• The Ministry of Culture has paid out over €5 million in support for the cultural sector in the last year.

And abroad

• Delayed second and third doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine boost immunity against Covid-19, a study by Oxford University, which developed the jab with the British-Swedish firm, said on Monday.

• While wealthy countries have started bringing down infections through rapid vaccination drives, outbreaks are still raging from Bangladesh and Indonesia to South America -- fuelled in large part by the highly infectious Delta variant, which was first detected in India.

• Australia has been broadly successful in containing virus clusters, but is now battling flare-ups in at least four cities across the vast continent nation. Further, a vast stimulus spending programme launched last year -- which saw the government pump billions into the economy to avert a full-blown depression -- will help keep the budget in deficit until at least 2060.

• There was something fishy about the invoice: why was a company in Singapore billing Brazil $45 million for an Indian Covid-19 vaccine that hadn’t been delivered?

• As life gradually returns to normal in Europe, there has been a resurgence of deadly violence against women as abusers experience a “loss of the control” they had throughout the coronavirus lockdowns.

• All of Italy became a mask-free, “low-risk” zone for coronavirus Monday, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the global pandemic in February 2020.

• British holidaymakers heading to Portugal must quarantine for two weeks upon arrival unless they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Lisbon announced Monday, citing fears over the Delta variant. The quarantine will stay in place until at least July 11.