Evening roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg:

• The Ministry of Health recorded 44 new cases from 7,812 tests in the last 24 hours.

• In regular times, this weekend would have been the Moselle’s annual wine queen pageant. A tradition that had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. But an alternative drive-through event was organised.

Around the world:

• The novel coronavirus has killed at least 921,097 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Sunday. At least 28,819,490 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 19,133,300 are now considered recovered.

• Austria is experiencing the start of a second wave of coronavirus infections, its chancellor said Sunday, as cases spike upwards in line with other EU countries.

• The survival of the Air France-KLM group is not guaranteed if the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic continues, Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra warned Sunday. France and the Netherlands, each with a 14-percent share of the group, have poured out billions of euros in aid to help national carriers that virtually came to a standstill in the first half of 2020.

• Sweden has taken a rather different approach when it comes to handling and containing the coronavirus outbreak. Visiting there this summer was an odd experience, writes our editor Martin Jonsson.

• The world’s hopes for a reprieve from the pandemic were dealt a blow earlier in the week when pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced they had “voluntarily paused” their vaccine trial after a UK volunteer developed an unexplained illness. But on Saturday the trial was given the all clear by British regulators to resume following a safety review. The company also announced it was resuming clinical trials in Brazil next Monday after being given the green light there as well.

• With millions around the world stuck at home due to the pandemic, “plane cafes” in Thailand are offering customers the chance to pretend they are in the sky -- and the idea seems to have taken off.

• After restrictions were eased for the burying of those who died of the novel coronavirus, Iraqis are exhuming the victims to rebury them in their rightful place in family cemeteries.

• Ninety UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a spokesman for the UNIFIL force said on Sunday, the first reported cases of the illness. The confirmed cases were transferred to a special UNIFIL facility equipped to deal with Covid-19 cases, UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti said in a statement.

• 244 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland over the past 24 hours. This is the highest daily update since 6 May. The total number of cases now stands at 22,679.

• France reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, its highest daily number since wide-scale testing was launched in the country.

• With almost no live audiences and few major names, New York Fashion week, which opens Sunday in city that was ravaged by the pandemic, is not giving up -- and is trying to help American designers survive an unprecedented crisis.