Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 123 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• From 5 to 11 July 226 new Covid cases were detected in primary and secondary schools across Luxembourg. The week prior saw 165 cases.

• Although the number of hospitalisations increased last week, the situation in intensive care units remained unchanged. Here’s the ministry’s weekly overview.

• Luxembourg’s Covid rules will be adapted slightly for the summer as they are neither eased nor tightened. The latest amendments were approved by MPs on Thursday morning.

And abroad

• Police in Paris fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators on Wednesday, as 19,000 people protested throughout France over new coronavirus restrictions.

• The UN warned Thursday that a “perfect storm” was brewing, with a raging pandemic disrupting access to routine vaccinations, leaving millions of children at risk from measles and other deadly diseases.

• Residents across Myanmar‘s biggest city Yangon are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.

• An athlete in Japan and five Olympic workers, mostly contractors, have tested positive for coronavirus, Tokyo 2020 organisers said Thursday, just over a week before the opening ceremony.

• Australia‘s bid to quash a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak will see Melbourne lock down late Thursday, bringing the total number of Australians under stay-at-home orders to around 12 million. The largely Covid-free country has recorded nearly 1,000 cases of the strain nationwide in the last month.

• Singapore police are investigating several karaoke bars for breaching coronavirus restrictions and have arrested 20 foreign women for alleged “vice-related activities” after an outbreak linked to the nightspots, authorities said.

• Bangladesh is to start giving coronavirus vaccinations to some of the 850,000 Rohingya refugees who fled across the border from Myanmar, officials said Thursday.

• The WHO chief urged China Thursday to be more cooperative in the next phase of investigations into the pandemic origins, demanding more access to raw data.