Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Starting with Luxembourg

  • The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 18 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

  • People that have received AstraZeneca as their first jab should be inoculated with an mRNA vaccine next, says Dr Gerard Schockmel, expert in infectious diseases, in an interview with RTL.

  • The Ministry of Health has released a report on the number of possible side effects that have occurred following a Covid-19 vaccination.

And abroad

  • Japan said on Thursday it will make a vaccine passport available from next month for Japanese travellers, as governments around the world experiment with ways to relaunch tourism and business trips.

  • Australia recommended that AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 jab should not be given to people under 60 on Thursday, a fresh blow to the country’s glacial vaccine rollout.

  • A repurposed arthritis drug has shown positive results in a clinical trial of patients hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a paper published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Irish no-frills airline Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group (MAG) are to launch Thursday a legal challenge against the UK government over its Covid traffic-light travel restrictions.

  • The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,835,238 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019.

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