Evening roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 51 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

  • On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn published an updated list of countries still imposing travel restrictions on people coming from Luxembourg.
  • The meeting of the Economic Committee was once again dominated by the consequences of the pandemic, as 3,085 companies filed a request for partial unemployment benefits for the month of September 2020.
  • The 91st edition of Luxembourg City’s Braderie will take place on Monday, with masks and no alcohol.

  Around the world

  • [block type="summary”]Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread school closures, at least one-third of students affected around the world lack access to virtual education, according to a UN study.

    • Police in northern France said Wednesday they had arrested a man suspected of having stabbed a waiter at a beachfront bar after he asked him to wear a mask.
    • After previously encouraging people without Covid-19 symptoms to get tested if they have been exposed to someone diagnosed with the virus, US health authorities have abruptly reversed their position without a clear explanation.
    • South Korea’s parliament was shut down on Thursday and a group of lawmakers were in self-quarantine as the country recorded more than 400 new coronavirus infections.
    • The novel coronavirus has killed at least 826,512 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, as cases topped 24 million.
    • Ten members of India’s dwindling Great Andamanese tribe have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Thursday, fuelling concerns about the safety of the group and other indigenous people in the remote archipelago.