Daily roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• Several hundred people protested against Luxembourg’s Covid measures on Saturday.

• The Covid-19 task force seems a little more optimistic about the current Covid situation than last week, yet still urges caution.

And Abroad

• Australia flew a small team of emergency medical specialists to Honiara on Saturday after the Solomon Islands requested help in battling a worsening outbreak of Covid-19.

• Singer Joni Mitchell said Friday she was pulling her music from Spotify over “lies” on the streaming service about Covid-19, just days after fellow musical titan Neil Young did the same.

• Hundreds of Canadian truckers converged on Ottawa Friday for a major demonstration against vaccine mandates to cross the Canada-US border.

• Indonesia is bracing for a third wave of Covid-19 infections as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives a surge in new cases, health authorities and experts said Saturday.

• Opponents of the vaccine pass demonstrated on Saturday in several cities in France, a few days after the 2G came into force. Notable cities included Nice, Strasbourg and Paris.

• Austria is easing restrictions, with a return to 3G (from 2G now) in the hospitality sector as of next week.

• Russia reported more than 100,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time on on Saturday.

• Among participants of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China, 36 more corona infections have been detected. In 29 cases, the infection was already detected after the affected persons had entered the country, including 19 athletes, according to the organising committee in Beijing. Seven further cases were detected among people who had already stayed in the Olympic villages.