Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The situation of the Covid-19 epidemic has been described as of high concern in Luxembourg by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

• On Friday, nurses at the Centre Hospitalier du Nord decided to make their voices heard via an online post. They asked for help, solidarity, and above all, for the population to be vaccinated.

• More than 2,000 people attended the fifth ‘white march’ and braved the cold on Friday in a protest that took them from Kirchberg to the centre of Luxembourg City.

And abroad

• Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday announced Western Europe’s first partial lockdown of the winter, with at least three weeks of Covid curbs on restaurants, shops and sporting events.

• When the Argentine government shut down much of the economy to stop the spread of Covid-19, many families had to give up work and now find themselves impotent in the face of rampant inflation that devours their meagre savings.

• A US federal court on Friday maintained a suspension of the Biden administration’s mandate requiring large businesses to vaccinate employees for Covid-19.

• More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in prosperous Singapore, where they are typically packed into shared rooms and sleep on bunk beds. The vast complexes were hit by Covid-19 and locked down at the start of the pandemic, while restrictions were introduced across the whole country for a period to prevent a broader outbreak.

• A major Beijing Winter Olympics venue will only let in one-fifth the spectators it normally holds due to Covid-19 fears, Chinese state media reported.

• The first international tourists touched down in Vietnam almost 20 months after the Southeast Asian nation closed its borders to contain the coronavirus.