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

Starting with Luxembourg:

• 8 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours, with again no patients in intensive care. Meanwhile, the country is ramping up its testing capacity.

• 23,000 tests have been carried out so far as part of the large-scale testing project across the country.

• The National Research Fund reported that Friday’s storm damaged the large-scale testing centre in Machtum on the Moselle river. The centre is expected to remain closed until Wednesday.

News from around the world:

• Dozens of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Beijing as parts of the city were locked down Saturday after the emergence of a new cluster linked to a wholesale food market.

• Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands have signed an agreement with pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca to guarantee the supply to the EU of 300 million doses of a possible coronavirus vaccine. The development of a vaccine could be successfully completed by the end of the year, German government sources told AFP.

• Nepali police arrested 10 protesters including foreign nationals from Australia, the United States and China on Saturday as hundreds staged a demonstration in Kathmandu against the government’s handling of the virus crisis.

• Chile’s health minister resigned Saturday as the pandemic is hitting the country hard despite a quarantine in place in the capital for more than a month. Chile registered its worst daily figures on Friday, with 222 deaths and more than 6,700 new infections in the previous 24-hours, authorities said.

• Russia on Saturday more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll for April to 2,712 after changing how it classifies fatalities. The April figures from Rosstat, the official statistics agency, include 1,270 deaths where the virus was the main cause. But they now also include deaths where the victim tested positive for the virus but it was not the main cause of death.

• France will gradually reopen its borders to countries outside the Schengen zone from July 1, the interior and foreign ministers said in a joint statement on Friday.

• Coronavirus-hit car rental company Hertz was granted permission Friday to sell $1 billion in shares, an extraordinary move after it declared bankruptcy in the United States and Canada.