Evening roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg:

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 517 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

  • On late Friday evening, the Director General of the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) addressed the current coronavirus situation in Luxembourg in a post on his Facebook page, “shall we continue like this Luxembourg?”.

  • RTL interviewed the president of CSV’s parliamentary group, Martine Hansen, on Saturday afternoon. She told us that unless new measures were taken, the Grand Duchy could be facing another lockdown.
  • In other political developments, the ADR called for an easing of restrictions over Christmas, while the LSAP highlighted the number of deaths and criticised the ADR’s wording used online.

  And around the world:

  • The US green-lit the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine late Friday, paving the way for millions of vulnerable people to receive their shots in the world’s hardest-hit country. The vaccine is expected to reach hospitals Monday.

  • It comes as data from the Pfizer-BioNTech trial published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the vaccine provokes only mild side effects.

  • Globally the death toll from the pandemic neared 1.6 million. Brazil saw its death toll surpass 180,000, while South Korea reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases to date.

  • [block type="summary”]Peru has temporarily suspended clinical trials of a Covid vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers.