The new Covid-19 law was passed on Saturday afternoon with the votes of the DP, the LSAP, the Green Party, the CSV, and the Pirate Party. Both the adr and the Left Party abstained.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health, new regulations for travellers entering the Grand Duchy will come into force on Sunday.
People who are not mobile and have difficulty getting to the vaccination centre have been receiving their jabs by mobile vaccination teams since March.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday announced a “non-working” week in the Russian capital, with non-essential workers told to stay home, as Covid-19 cases hit a six-month high.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday gave his strongest hint yet that a plan to lift all coronavirus restrictions would be delayed, due to concern over the spread of a new variant.
The head of the European Medicines Agency told AFP on Friday that all countries must have access to coronavirus vaccines, as G7 leaders were set to pledge one billion doses for poor nations.
The G7 on Saturday unveiled US-led plans to counter China in infrastructure funding for poorer nations, and a new accord to prevent future pandemics, as the elite group sought to showcase Western unity at its first in-person summit since 2019.
The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it had told Johnson & Johnson that millions of doses of Covid vaccine produced at a troubled plant can’t be used because of possible contamination issues.
Sherri Tenpenny, an American physician named among the biggest “profiteers” from anti-vaccination misinformation, appears on a YouTube channel sharing misleading claims about coronavirus shots. We have a fact check on her claims, here.
