Daily roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1796305.htmlIn the latest coronavirus update, Luxembourg’s authorities discovered 195 cases from 4,995 tests over the weekend.

• 1,850 school pupils had to quarantine as a preventive measure in the first week of school this year, as 185 children between the age of 3 and 12 tested positive for Covid-19.

• Police broke up a party in Biwisch on Sunday night, which was attended by 100-150 people. Some got stuck with their cars in the field trying to escape.

And abroad

• The European Medicines Agency approved booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine for all people aged 18 and over, amid concerns that protection dips after initial jabs.

• Global airlines will lose an estimated $51.8 billion in 2021 and another $11.6 billion in 2022 in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an industry forecast released Monday.

• UK finance minister Rishi Sunak announced the government would extend programmes created during the outbreak to get people into work.

• Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted Monday that New Zealand’s widely praised “Covid zero” strategy had failed to halt a stubborn outbreak in Auckland and said a new approach was needed.

• More than 700,000 Americans have now died from the pandemic, according to an AFP tally. The United States has long been the worst-hit country in the world by the virus, with its death toll reaching 701,176 after 246 more people died there in the last 24 hours.

• Beijing 2022 organisers say the Winter Olympics “face great pressure” because of the pandemic as they stage test events for February’s Games.

• FIFA welcomed on Sunday a relaxing of quarantine regulations that will allow Premier League players to travel to represent their nations in countries on the UK’s red-list for travel.