Evening roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and around the world

Starting with Luxembourg:

• Luxembourg has recorded another 7 cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 3,930. 900 people have been discharged from hospital.

• Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn stated upon enquiry that it was “very likely” that Luxembourgish residents would be allowed to go shopping in Belgium again as of next week.

• The coronavirus hotline has received 66,000 calls to date, in addition to approximately 2,900 calls to 112 linked to COVID-19 since the start of the crisis.

• Two scouts federations launched a joint appeal to encourage volunteers to create masks at home - resulting in 35,000 homemade masks.

• According to internal critics at customs, the participation of Luxembourgish officials in border controls was not entirely legal.

• And finally, 708 doctors and dentists who were on stand-by duty during the past weeks are to be paid on Monday, confirmed CNS.

And in the international sphere:

• Spain‘s government will seek a fresh extension of its state of emergency that will last “about a month” until the transition out of lockdown is completed, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday.

• People living in the most deprived areas of Britain are more than four times likelier to test positive for COVID-19 than those living in the richest neighbourhoods, new research showed Saturday.

• Kenya‘s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Saturday that the country’s coronavirus measures would be extended and its borders with Tanzania and Somalia closed.

• South African platinum mine Implats has temporarily suspended operations after 19 workers tested positive for coronavirus, the company said Saturday.

• An Angolan soldier shot and killed a teenager during an operation to enforce face-mask wearing to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The home affairs ministry said a 17-year-old boy “was a victim of a gunshot” fired by a soldier on Friday while “allegedly” protesting against a military-led awareness campaign on the use of face masks.

• Angered by a slew of lockdown measures, purported vaccine plans or alleged state surveillance, thousands took to the streets on Saturday in Germany in a growing wave of demonstrations that has alarmed even Chancellor Angela Merkel.

• Russia on Saturday recorded its highest daily death toll yet from the coronavirus while new cases fell to the lowest level in two weeks. Russia is in second place in the world to the United States with 272,043 cases, with 9,200 new cases announced Saturday, the lowest number since May 2.

• The United States recorded 1,680 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its grim total to 87,493, according to the latest real-time tally Friday reported by Johns Hopkins University.

• Europe and the United States have seen sharp surges in recent weeks of a severe immune disorder in children linked to COVID-19, health authorities reported Friday, sounding an alarm.