Evening roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 45 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday in Luxembourg following 6,847 tests.

  Around the world

  
  

  • German police struggled to disperse crowds of demonstrators who gathered in Berlin to protest coronavirus restrictions
  • After reporting their second highest daily infection rates since the pandemic began on Friday, France reported 5,453 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday (down from 7,379).
  • Belgian authorities have announced that around 50,000 holidaymakers have returned to the country since the beginning of August from countries labelled red zones due to high coronavirus rates.
  • In response to sharply rising infection rates among university students in the U.S., many college towns have been forced to close bars and reimpose mask mandates just weeks into the fall term.
  • The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan cited the novel coronavirus in its decision to reverse a ban on the sale of tobacco.
  • Peru extended its national emergency until September 30 and prolonged a lockdown in some of the areas worst affected by the coronavirus.

  • Covid-19 has killed at least 838,271 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December. At least 24,795,760 cases have been registered, 15,976,700 of which are now considered recovered.