Daily roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Find all of today's most important Covid developments both at home and abroad in one place.
A shopper wearing a face covering to combat the spread of the coronavirus passes a piece of street art named 'Out of Order' by artist David Mach in the centre of Kingston upon Thames in south west London on January 9, 2022.
A shopper wearing a face covering to combat the spread of the coronavirus passes a piece of street art named ‘Out of Order’ by artist David Mach in the centre of Kingston upon Thames in south west London on January 9, 2022.
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Starting with Luxembourg

  • The German Robert Koch Institute has once again decided to classify the Grand Duchy as a “high-risk zone”.

And Abroad

  • Tennis world number one NovakDjokovic launches a make-or-break court battle on Monday to stay in Melbourne and defend his Australian Open title, arguing he has an all-clear because of a positive coronavirus test in December.

  • A person working in a vaccination centre in the Grand Est region in France was violently assaulted on Friday.

  • The northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Sunday advised its nearly 14 million people to stay home while it conducted mass Covid testing after a spate of recent cases, including two caused by the Omicron variant, state-controlled media reported.

  • More than 100,000 people across France protested Saturday over what they say are government plans to further restrict the rights of the unvaccinated, days after French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to “piss off” those refusing the jab.

  • Mexico hit a record in confirmed daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday, according to official data, posting more than 30,000 additional infections as the highly contagious respiratory disease spread in the country.

  • The infection rate of COVID-19 cases at U.S. military base at Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture is probably the world’s highest, the Japanese media report estimated on Saturday.

  • Reducing the self-isolation period for people who test positive for COVID-19 from seven days to five would help British workforces that have been hard hit by absences, education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.

  • The Israeli Ministry of Health said 254,000 people have been vaccinated with the fourth dose so far. According to an expert recommendation, only people over 60, immunocompromised people and medical personnel have been vaccinated so far.
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