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 65 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

  • LSAP politician Alex Bodry that the Grand Duchy’s approach to balancing public health and fundamental freedoms during the crisis was successful.

  And abroad

  • The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 900,000 since the respiratory disease first appeared in China last year, according to an AFP tally.

  • Headaches, confusion and delirium experienced by some Covid-19 patients could be the result of the coronavirus directly invading the brain, according to a study published Wednesday.

  • Millions of Italian pupils head back to the classroom next week after six months at home, confronting a new reality of outdoor lessons, coronavirus “isolation rooms” and even a possible ban on singing.

  • [block type="summary”]Posturing, repression and a distaste for facts: the world’s strongman regimes have dealt with the Covid pandemic in much the same way they deal with everything else, analysts say.