Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The Ministry of Health is not releasing Covid figures on the weekend, but the latest figures from Luxembourg show that 219 new cases of coronavirus were recorded.

• A public debate about the introduction of CovidCheck in workplaces and public institutions will now take place, as the petition against the measure has exceeded the minimum of 4,500 signatures.

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that as of Sunday, travellers from third countries who have a vaccination certificate issued by the USA may re-enter Luxembourg.

• In a video shared several thousand times on social networks since 1 October, a Luxembourgish doctor falsely claims that people who have been vaccinated risk “micro thromboses all over the body” and dying “next year”. Read our Fact check here.

And abroad

• The Era of anti-Covid pills begins. Read about the potential simple treatments for Covid-19.

• Fire tore through a hospital in western India on Saturday killing at least 11 coronavirus patients. The hospital ward, which was left a charred wreck, had been newly built for coronavirus patients.