Evening roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg:

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 16 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday, with nine deaths also reported.

  • Luxembourgish company B Medical Systems has also started to export freezers capable of storing the Pfizer vaccine to the United Arab Emirates.
  • Current estimates suggest that 36,000 people in Luxembourg will be vaccinated by the end of March, according to Luc Feller.
  • The Centre for the Luxembourgish Language (ZLS) has named ‘corona’ as the country’s word of the year for 2020.

  And around the world:

  • The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization‘s chief said.

  • After delaying for nearly a week and under pressure from all sides, US President Donald Trumpfinally signed a massive $900 billion stimulus bill Sunday, in a long-sought boost for millions of Americans and businesses battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
  • A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said Monday, almost a year after details of an “unknown viral pneumonia” surfaced in the central China city.

  • [block type="summary”]Pfizertemporarily postponed the delivery of new batches of its coronavirus vaccine to eight European nations including Spain, the Spanish health ministry said Monday, a day after the EU began its immunisation campaign.

    • Eight care home workers in Germany were accidentally injected with five doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, local authorities said Monday -- but are suffering no serious ill effects so far.