Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 192 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the past 24 hours from 11,688 tests. There was one new death.

• First there were mobile testing teams and the large scale testing campaign; now, schools have moved on to rapid tests. Minister of Education Claude Meisch praised the participation rates, saying around 85.5% had taken part in the testing this week.

And around the world

• India‘s devastating Covid surge accelerated further on Saturday with more than 400,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours, as it opened its faltering vaccination programme to all adults. The Indian capital New Delhi will stay in lockdown for another week.

• Meanwhile, people arriving in Australia from India could face five years jail as the country strengthens an earlier travel ban, the government announced Saturday, in a bid to prevent the outbreak from spreading to its shores.

• Turkish police detained more than 200 people who were trying to hold a May Day rally in Istanbul on Saturday in defiance of a ban related to the pandemic.

• Hong Kong migrant worker groups on Saturday criticised plans to make coronavirus vaccines compulsory for all foreign domestic helpers, labelling the move “discriminatory and unjust”.

• In Ecuador, hospitals continue to operate near maximum occupancy, prompting wait lists that have led to many patients dying at home or in the waiting room due to a lack of space and/or resources. In neighbouring Colombia, new employment and economic data reveals that some 3.6 million Colombians fell into poverty during 2020 as a direct result of the pandemic.

• The Dutch caretaker government has postponed further easing of measures, it said in a brief written statement, meaning that gyms and amusement parks will stay shut after 11 May.

• New Zealand‘s fledgling quarantine-free travel arrangement with Western Australia faced disruption for the second time in eight days Saturday following fresh community cases of Covid-19 in Perth.

• Video: It’s possibly the ultimate home office: dangling off a cliff-face over the Irish Sea. But for Jason Griffin, a 34-year-old call centre consultant from Glasgow, Scotland with a taste for adventure, it was the perfect spot to put remote-working technology to the test.

• Fans wearing Mickey Mouse ears lined up as Disneyland in California finally reopened Friday, more than 400 days after the pandemic forced an unprecedented closure for the self-styled “Happiest Place on Earth.”