Daily roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad
Find all of today's most important developments both at home and abroad in one place.
Published: 17.08.21 19:11, Update: 18.08.21 08:32
Starting with Luxembourg
And abroad
Social media posts which shared a photo of police at a protest in France claiming that officers sided with the demonstrators against vaccine "pass" have since been debunked as false.
New Zealand imposed a snap three-day lockdown Tuesday after identifying a single case of locally transmitted Covid-19 suspected to be the Delta variant, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
- There is "enormous concern" over a coronavirus outbreak in vulnerable Australian Indigenous communities, authorities said Tuesday, prompting them to deploy military personnel to deliver vaccines to the largely unjabbed population.
- Japan's government on Tuesday expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more regions as it battles a record wave of infections a week before the Paralympic Games.
- Facebook users are sharing a photo of Dennis Rodman wearing a T-shirt with an anti-mask message. The image has been doctored; the original taken by an AFP photographer showed the former basketball star dressed in a shirt advertising a cryptocurrency.