Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 165 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours. There was one new death.

• Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said Thursday that his personal protection had been increased after receiving death threats last week. Bettel had received death threats after announcing the new Covid law.

• On Monday the new Covid law, concerning the implementation of the new CovidCheck regime, will be put to a vote in the Chamber of Deputies. On Thursday morning, members of the Parliamentary Health Committee reviewed the text of the bill.

• The weekly review has shown that close to half of new Covid patients were fully vaccinated, among other points.

And abroad

• People who received Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine may benefit from a booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna, preliminary results of a US study published Wednesday showed.

• Bali reopened to international flights from select countries on Thursday, including China, Japan and France, as the pandemic-struck Indonesian holiday island took a step toward welcoming back tourists.

• According to a survey by scientific journal Nature, dozens of scientists have been harassed over the pandemic.

• Hanoi residents flocked to restaurants across the Vietnamese capital on Thursday (October 14) as the government relaxed restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 for the first time in three months, allowing dine-in for restaurants to resume.

• India’s main religious festival season is back in full swing with huge noisy crowds thronging markets and fairs for the first time in two years, barely six months after a devastating Covid-19 surge.

• The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has emerged as one of the world’s most vaccinated places with more than 99 percent of the eligible population fully protected against Covid-19, according to data released Thursday. In a population of about 18,000, almost 15,000 people have been fully vaccinated.