Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• A reminder that the government are no longer posting weekend figures and a full review of the weekend’s figures will be posted on Monday.

• The government recently announced that people who contracted the virus no longer have to get fully vaccinated.

• As of Sunday, a number of restrictions will disappear from our daily lives. All you need to know, right here!

• For the past 15 months, the pandemic has taken centre stage in many minds. Unsurprisingly, environmental movements, such as “Fridays for Future”, struggled to keep up momentum after the pandemic started.

• Luxembourg places third in European list for vaccination rates, trailing Belgium and The Netherlands.

And abroad

• The World Health Organization estimates that the pandemic’s overall toll could be two to three times higher than official records, due to the excess mortality that is directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19.

• The Distillery club in the eastern city of Leipzig, which bills itself as the oldest techno venue in Germany’s former Communist east, is taking part in a pilot project supported by scientists from the Max Planck institute and the local university hospital.

• More than 40 million people in Germany have so far received at least one vaccination against the coronavirus, latest data shows.

• Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Sunday that residents of the Russian capital who get their first coronavirus jab will now take part in a lottery to win a car.

• Paris police said Sunday that three people were detained after officers used tear gas to disperse hundreds of youths gathered for a street party in defiance of Covid social distancing limits and an 11:00 pm curfew.

• A top official in the European Medicines Agency said it might be worth abandoning AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for all age groups where alternatives are available, in an interview published Sunday.