Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 85 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Last week, 573 new cases of Covid-19 were discovered in Luxembourg, 30 more than during the previous week. 420 of these positive cases were unvaccinated people, which represent 74% of all new infections.

And abroad

• Ten people died in a fire Wednesday evening at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, authorities said.

• The European Medicines Agency has listed the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause temporary paralysis, as a “very rare” side effect of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

• Locked-down Sydney residents could enjoy a beer at the pub as soon as next month if the double-dose vaccination rate hits 70 percent, under an official “roadmap to freedom” released on Thursday.

• For Bangkok market sellers, the armpit sweat soaking their T-shirts during the humid monsoon season may contain subtle signs of coronavirus infection, local scientists have said.

• Drew Weissman’s decades of research helped pave the way for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but the scientist isn’t resting on his laurels. The University of Pennsylvania immunologist, who on Thursday shared the $3 million 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences with his longtime collaborator Katalin Kariko, is now spearheading efforts to design a new vaccine against all coronaviruses.

• And finally, social media posts suggest that Bill Gates is calling for “depopulation through forced vaccination”. The claim is false. The newspaper which made the claim has misrepresented remarks made by Gates in 2010 about population growth, where he made no reference to “depopulation”.