Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]Police intervened in Echternach after being alerted to a gathering of people at a local parking lot on Saturday night. Besides breaking the curfew, there were also drugs found.

  And abroad

  • The European Union has not renewed orders for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine beyond June and is not certain that it will, the bloc’s internal market commissioner said Sunday.

  • India reports a record new Covid-19 daily death toll of over 4,000 and more than 400,000 new cases as the country grapples with the world’s worst coronavirus surge. Members of the opposition call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order a national lockdown as the country’s official death toll to date hit 238,270.

  • Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo considers it “possible” to organise “a few big festivals” in “the second half of the summer”, like the electronic music festival Tomorrowland, his cabinet said on Sunday.
  • People who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are exempt from many restrictions in Germany from Sunday after the government passed new legislation to restore some freedoms.
  • State media in Laos reported that a 53-year-old Vietnamese woman with underlying medical problems died of Covid-19 on Sunday, making it the country’s first fatality, according to Reuters.
  • As coronavirus wreaks severe economic damage, some British employers stand accused of taking a highly controversial measure to stay afloat: fire and rehire.
  • Spain has lifted a state of emergency in place since October to fight the pandemic, allowing Spaniards to travel between regions for the first time in months.