Daily roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The weekend update sees 490 cases from 6,078 tests, 4 new deaths and 57 receiving hospital care.

• Police reported CovidCheck infringements in eight hotels, restaurants, and cafés last week.

And abroad

• Austria on Monday became the first country in the European Union to impose a lockdown on the unvaccinated and start inoculating children as young as five after coronavirus cases surged across the continent.

• India on Monday opened to foreign tourists from countries with reciprocal agreements after a 20-month ban. Cambodiaalso reopened.

• Thousands of children in the Philippines were allowed to return to classrooms Monday for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, as a pilot re-opening of schools got under way.

• Britain‘s booster programme for Covid-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light on Monday. All healthy adults aged 40-49 should be offered a booster, six months after their second dose, and 16 and 17-year-olds should now be offered a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.

• Italian police on Monday raided anti-vaccine activists alleged to have used an online chat to call for violence, including “hangings” and “shootings,” against people supporting Covid-19 restrictions.

• Belgium has brought forward a meeting on potential new measures by two days from Friday to Wednesday so that they could be operational by the weekend. Rules could include face masks and home office.

• The Maori tribe that owns rights to the “Ka Mate” haka told anti-vaccine protesters Monday to stop performing the famous ritual at demonstrations.