Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Update: 06.02.2021 18:31

Students wearing facemasks and face-shields attend an assembly after their school reopened for the 9th and 10th grades following nearly ten months closure due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Hyderabad, India, on February 6, 2021.

Starting with Luxembourg

[block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 177 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday. There were two new deaths.
- [block type="summary”]The Secretary-General of the Horesca Federation said in an interview with Tageblatt that it would not come as a surprise to him if the hospitality sector remained shut until 1 April.
  - In an RTL interview, the president of the Luxembourg Association of Professional Journalists said the government was ‘disturbingly bad’ at communicating information.
  And abroad
  - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2,299,637 people around the world since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturday. At least 105,350,590 cases of coronavirus have been registered.
  - [block type="summary”]China’s drug authorities have given “conditional” approval for a second Covid-19 vaccine, Sinovac’s CoronaVac jab, the pharmaceutical company said Saturday.