Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Find all of today's most important Covid-19 news in one place in our daily roundup.
An elderly Palestinian, clad in mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, stands before an information billboard asking people to distance at least one metre apart from each other as a pandemic precaution, in the city centre of the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on February 21, 2020.
An elderly Palestinian, clad in mask due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, stands before an information billboard asking people to distance at least one metre apart from each other as a pandemic precaution, in the city centre of the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on February 21, 2020.
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Starting with Luxembourg

  • [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 170 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday. Two new deaths were also recorded.

    And abroad

    • [block type="summary”]German experts warned of an imminent third wave. Germany has seen the number of new confirmed infections plateauing rather than falling, as had been hoped, which is being blamed in large part on new variants.

      • [block type="summary”]Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout began Sunday, with top officials among a small group receiving the first jabs a day before the vaccination programme starts in earnest.

        • Hundreds of Peruvians waited in long lines Saturday to get medical oxygen for loved ones with Covid-19, amid a shortage of the gas in the pandemic’s second wave.
        • People returning to work following the long pandemic will find an array of tech-infused gadgetry to improve workplace safety but which could pose risks for long-term personal and medical privacy.
        • A pub that closed its doors during lockdown is now serving a menagerie of very different clientele after transforming into Ireland’sfirst wildlife hospital.
        • And finally, body camera video released Friday shows deputies in Florida scolding two women who tried to pose as seniors so they could get the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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