Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 195 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

• In an interview with RTL Radio, Minister of Health Paulette Lenert hinted at gradual relaxations in virus measures after mid-May.

• Police officers had to disperse a gathering of around 150 people in Luxembourg City’s Kinnekswiss on Friday evening. The crowd were, among other things, setting off fireworks.

And abroad

• The world hit a new daily record of coronavirus cases due mainly to an explosion of the virus in India. Cases topped 893,000 worldwide on Friday, with more than a third of the infections in India.

• The healthcare system in India has been struggling to cope with the Covid wave battering the country, where thousands of afflicted are turning up at hospitals only to find no beds and a battle for oxygen and life-saving drugs.

• Germans are facing tougher nationwide Covid-19 measures from Saturday, including night curfews and school closures, after the government passed a disputed new law designed to slow infections.

• In brighter news, the world reached the milestone of one billion Covid jabs administered globally. The unprecedented inoculation drive is seen as the world’s ticket out of the coronavirus disaster.

• Vaccination remains a massive logistical challenge. While Japan is best known for its teeming megacities, much of its countryside remains remote and depopulated, making vaccination of its often elderly residents a huge headache.

• Indonesia has sentenced scores of prisoners to death over Zoom and other video apps during the pandemic in what critics say is an “inhumane” insult to those facing the firing squad.

• Tributes poured in Friday for popular Bollywood music composer Shravan Rathod, who died in a Mumbai hospital aged 66 after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

• Experts in the US recommended the resumption of Johnson&Johnson Covid-19 vaccinations, after a pause prompted by blood clot concerns.

• Finally, we take a look at the life of an ambulance driver amid Brazil’s devastating Covid outbreak.