Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 102 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Bionext’s director announced the intention to file a formal complaint against Luxembourg’s Ministry of Health at national and European level, citing an unfairly balanced competition.

• 67.8% of new Covid cases last week were unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated.

• The Health directorate virologist Dr Dentzer confirmed in an interview that the ministry has requested an independent evaluation of the Large Scale Testing campaign.

And abroad

• As of today, China has fully vaccinated more than one billion people against the coronavirus -- 71 percent of its population.

• Thousands of health workers across France have been suspended without pay for failing to get vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of a deadline this week.

• Social media posts claim that the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin causes sterility in 85 percent of men who take it. Get the Fact Check here.

• Global fossil greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2019, shrinking by 5.6 percent in 2020 due to the Covid-19 restrictions and economic slowdown, but the effect was “too small to be distinguished from natural variability.”