Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• What new laws, taxes or support schemes will come into force from 2022? Our colleagues at RTL 5minutes summarise what to expect next year. Our translation can be found here.

• RTL Today reader poll: As we looked ahead to 2021 a year ago, it looked like we had a bright future ahead. How do you feel this year?

And abroad

• Travel headaches abound for millions worldwide on the holiday weekend with 2,200 flights cancelled on Sunday alone, tracking websites reported, as celebrants wrap up Christmas battered by Covid’s Omicron variant.

• Three members of K-pop sensation BTS have tested positive for Covid-19 since returning from the US, where they held their first in-person concerts since the pandemic began, the group’s management said Saturday.

• The Chinese city of Xi’an, where 13 million residents are currently confined to their homes, announced tightened restrictions on Sunday as the country recorded its biggest Covid-19 infection numbers in 21 months.

• For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, France has recorded more than 100,00 new Coronavirus infections over the span of a single day. Hospitalisations have doubled over the passed month, which is making it difficult for the French government to hold off a lockdown.
• The Robert Koch Institute has recorded 10,100 new Coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours in Germany. 88 deaths were also reported in the same time period.

• Champions Toulouse’s home game on Sunday with Stade Francais became the fourth Top 14 clash to be called off due to a surfeit of Covid-19 positive tests in the visiting club.