Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The Ministry of Health doesn’t release figures on the weekend, but the latest figures from Luxembourg showed that 182 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Friday.

• As thousands participated in the anti-CovidCheck march, Dr Reuter of the CHL drew attention to the situation in intensive care units.

And abroad

• Russia complained Saturday about lack of international recognition for its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a G20 summit, where leaders agreed to step up global inoculation efforts.

• Beijing introduced new Covid-19 curbs on Saturday to stamp out a “serious” outbreak as the Chinese capital maintains its strict zero-tolerance policy, with less than 100 days before it hosts the Winter Olympics.

• The United States on Friday authorized the Pfizer Covid vaccine for children aged five-to-11, paving the way for 28 million young Americans to soon get immunized.

• Since the start of the Covid pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionize medicine.

• Leaders of the world’s most advanced nations met Saturday at the G20 summit in Rome hoping to hammer out a way forward on climate change and vaccine equality, with consensus still outstanding on the most pressing global issues.
• German chancellor Angela Merkel sounded the alarm on Saturday over the return of a “certain recklessness” as Covid-19 infection and death rates climb in Germany.