The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 452 new cases of coronavirus were discovered since Friday’s update.
After eight inmates at Schrassig prison recently tested positive for coronavirus, the administration has quarantined 100 prisoners out of precaution. It was also decided to reinforce sanitary measures in the facility.
The Superior Council for Infectious Diseases (CSMI) is expected to announce a decision on the potential widening of the booster strategy. For instance, health care workers may be advised to freshen up their immunity levels with an additional jab.
The president of the Association of Doctors and Dentists in Luxembourg (AMMD) sat down for an interview on RTL Radio on Monday morning. Naturally, the rising infection and hospitalisation numbers are a cause for concern, Dr Schmit underlined during the interview, especially since we are only at the beginning of the winter. He further believes that the current vaccination rate of 78% is clearly not high enough, but also acknowledged that the campaign was still underway.
Germany’s incidence rate measuring the number of new coronavirus infections per 100,000 people over the last seven days soared to 201.1 on Monday, a record since the pandemic erupted more than a year ago.
Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered Monday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases.
A US Covid patient who survived the disease after being hospitalised for 28 days returned to the hospital that helped save his life - and to apologise for not getting vaccinated.
The UnitedStatesreopened its land and air borders Monday to foreign visitors fully vaccinated against Covid-19, ending 20 months of travel restrictions that separated families, hobbled tourism and strained diplomatic ties.
Most of Russia on Monday ended a week-long paid holiday aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, despite the country seeing thousands of new cases and more than 1,000 deaths per day.
Social media posts and online articles claim Italian authorities revised down the country’s Covid-19 death toll from more than 130,000 to less than 4,000. This is false; the posts and articles misrepresented a report by Italy’s leading health institute, which described the claim as “fake news.”
