Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• Reminder - there is no daily Covid update on Sundays.

• [block type="summary”]On Saturday, the Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation (OGBL) organised its annual Labour Day celebrations. OGBL president Nora Back used the opportunity to express her gratitude for the hard work that has been performed by key workers since the beginning of the pandemic.

  And around the world

  • [block type="summary”]The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,194,716 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019. At least 152,098,680 cases of coronavirus have been registered.

    • More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose to a new record.
    • Hundreds of people flouted France’s coronavirus curfew over the weekend with underground parties in at least two cities, while police managed to prevent organisers from staging a mass rave in Paris, officials said Sunday.
    • Belgian police arrested 132 people as they used tear gas and water cannon to break up a banned anti-lockdown party in a Brussels park on the weekend, an official report said Sunday.
    • Several thousand Brazilians marched Saturday in support of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, ignoring a surging pandemic even as government opponents took their own protests online.
    • Pope Francis on Saturday launched a month-long prayer marathon to hasten the end of the coronavirus pandemic with a prayer at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican before some 150 believers.
    • A newly developed, lollipop-shaped coronavirus test is being rolled out in some of Austria’s kindergartens as an alternative for toddlers who don’t take well to throat or nose swabs.