Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The new measures announced by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health have raised a number of questions, especially among restaurant and café owners. The OGBL responded.

• Despite the pandemic, the overall success rate for vocational training is almost 84% for the 2020-2021 summer session, compared to 76.5% and 77% in 2020 and 2019 respectively.

And abroad

• Cases of depression and anxiety surged by more than a quarter globally during the first year of the pandemic, especially among women and young adults, a major study showed on Saturday.

• Fiji will ease Covid-19 restrictions and announce its reopening for international travel after the country hit a vaccination milestone Saturday.

• Over 500 Covid cases have been linked to a music festival in Glasgow, Public Health Scotland said. The TRNSMT music festival attracted about 50,000 people over three days in September. It is not sure whether the virus was contracted at the event.

• Singapore will allow quarantine-free entry to vaccinated travellers from Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Canada and the US, according to the country’s transport minister.

• Russia recorded a new record of daily deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, with 968 deaths.

• The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean exceeded 1.5 million deaths on Friday, according to a count made by AFP from official figures. The coronavirus death toll in particular exceeded 600,000 in Brazil on Friday, the second worst affected country in the world after the United States.