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 88 new cases of coronavirus were identified over the last 24 hours.

  • Luxembourg’s various laboratories continue to place importance on separating testing facilities, even if the large-scale testing programme is not at full capacity.

  Around the world:

  • [block type="summary”]President Donald Trump was hospitalised Friday and given an experimental Covid-19 treatment, but said he was “well,” following bombshell news that the Republican had contracted the virus, knocking him off the campaign trail a month from the US election.

    • Moving on now to Spain, where more than 2,000 troops have been drafted for track and trace duties.

    • Pope Francis made his first trip Saturday since the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown, though it will be a solitary affair for the crowd-loving Argentine who has had to learn how to be close to the faithful from a distance.

    • The makers of the new James Bond movie -- which has already had its release date pushed back once due to the pandemic -- on Friday said it would not now be released until April 2021.

    • US airline workers at risk of layoffs were given hope of a possible reprieve on Friday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed another round of aid for the beleaguered sector.

    • Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra tested positive for coronavirus and was treated in hospital last month but has since recovered, a source close to the exiled billionaire told AFP on Saturday.

    • Deaths from the novel coronavirus in Indiapassed 100,000 on Saturday, official data showed as the pandemic continued to rage across the world’s second most populous country.
    • Yet another NFL game has been postponed, this time the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs were forced to push back Sunday’s clash after positive Covid-19 tests by Patriots quarterback Cam Newton and Chiefs reserve Jordan Ta’amu.