Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• More than 1,000 people gathered in front of the Philharmonie on Friday evening to protest against mandatory vaccination and the current coronavirus measures.

• The retirement home “Op der Léier” in Esch-Sur-Alzette will prohibit visits until Monday after reporting several positive cases.

• RTL hosted a debate between OGBL, LCGB, and UEL around the introduction of CovidCheck in the workplace.

And abroad

• USfatalities from Covid-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation’s capital Washington.

• Fully vaccinated travellers from any country can now book holidays to tourism haven Phuket, Thailand.

• Graphene, a Nobel Prize-awarded material with promising applications for greener energy and nanomedicine, has been the topic of much disinformation by coronavirus anti-vaxxers claiming it can be used to “magnetize” and “control” people.

• The United States announced Friday it is sending more than eight million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh and the Philippines in the latest wave of aid to a world still struggling to tame the pandemic.