Daily roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Find all of today's most important Covid developments both at home and abroad in one place.
A truck is allowed to drive away as police clear the road during a protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022. Protesters again poured into Toronto and Ottawa early on February 5 to join a convoy of truckers whose occupation of Ottawa to denounce Covid vaccine mandates is now in its second week.
A truck is allowed to drive away as police clear the road during a protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022. Protesters again poured into Toronto and Ottawa early on February 5 to join a convoy of truckers whose occupation of Ottawa to denounce Covid vaccine mandates is now in its second week.
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Starting with Luxembourg

  • The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 3,030 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 72 hours.

  • Luxembourg’s Minister of Health Paulette Lenert joined our colleagues on RTL Radio for an interview on Monday morning, during which she warned against Covid complacency.

And abroad

  • Canadian Prime Minister JustinTrudeau said Monday he has tested positive for Covid-19, while calling out truckers protesting against vaccine mandates.

  • Russian and Canadian women ice hockey players wore medical masks Monday for their Beijing Winter Games match after Covid results failed to arrive in time, in a bizarre pandemic-inspired chapter to the Games.

  • Australia will reopen its borders to tourists from February 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday, ending some of the world’s strictest and longest-running pandemic travel restrictions.

  • A Chinese city of 3.5 million near the border with Vietnam was on lockdown Monday after more than 70 coronavirus cases were discovered there over the past three days.

  • Moroccoreopened its airspace on Monday in a bid to breathe life into its crisis-hit tourism sector, two months after it cancelled commercial flights over coronavirus fears.

  • Global news agency Reuters published an article that said a Japanese company found ivermectin to be effective against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in human trials. The article was corrected to say that trials were non-clinical, meaning they did not test on people, but social media posts are still spreading the article’s original incorrect assertion that the drug was proven effective against Covid-19 in human test subjects.

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