Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 152 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday from 6,138 tests. 1 new death was reported.

• MPs officially voted on Friday afternoon to extend restrictions until 21 February. An overview of the ones currently in place can be found here.

• Germany’s vaccine commission announced this week that it would only recommend the use of the AstraZeneca shot for people aged 16 to 65, but Professor Markus Ollert, the Director of Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), expects the AstraZeneca shot to be effective with older people too.

• Radio ARA has found itself in a precarious situation as the country’s largest community radio station with low funds in times of a global pandemic and little government support. A symbolic march is planned for Monday.

• 350 protestors assembled in Luxembourg City on Saturday to demonstrate against the shutdown of the Horesca sector.

And abroad

• WHO experts on Sunday visited the market in central China linked to the first known Covid-19 cluster, seeking clues about the outbreak of the pandemic.

• Protests took place in several cities across Europe, including Paris, Brussels, Vienna and others - an overview.

• French President Emmanuel Macron has gambled by not imposing a third national lockdown - against expectations and the advice of his most senior scientific advisers.

• Protesters briefly disrupted a coronavirus vaccination distribution centre at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, US media reported Saturday. Several dozen people carrying signs demanding the end of lockdowns and promoting anti-vaccination conspiracy theories gathered at the entrance to the site.

• The Pentagon said Saturday it was putting on hold a plan to give Covid vaccines to terror detainees at Guantanamo, following an outcry as the United States struggles to deliver jabs to frontline workers and vulnerable elderly Americans.

• Polish police said they raided discos in the cities of Wroclaw and Rybnik that had opened in breach of coronavirus restrictions on Saturday, using stun grenades and tear gas to clear the dance floor. Two officers were injured, while police arrested three men and checked the ID papers of 213 others.

• Germany is sending medical personnel en equipment to Portugal to ease the pressure on local hospitals, which are on the verge of collapsing. Spiegel reports that 27 doctors and first responders will fly to Portugal and stay for three weeks. Field hospital beds and ventilators are amongst the equipment on board.

• Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews defied Israel’s coronavirus restrictions to attend a rabbi’s funeral on Sunday, prompting Defence Minister Benny Gantz to demand the community’s repeated breaking of lockdown rules must end.

• Germany has banned most travellers from countries hit by new, more contagious coronavirus variants to prevent a surge in infection numbers. The move, set to last until February 17, affects people coming from Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Portugal, and South Africa, as well as the southern African kingdoms of Lesotho and Eswatini.