Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 3,064 new coronavirus infections were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• MPs assembled in the Chamber on Wednesday afternoon in a five-hour debate on the topic of mandatory vaccination in Luxembourg.

• The third week of January saw 11,700 positive PCR results from around 37,800 tests performed - an increase of 8% over the previous week.https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1850242.html

• On Thursday the National Employment Agency (Adem) said December’s unemployment rate was 5,2%, a slight drop compared to the previous month.

• Our colleagues from RTL spoke to volunteer Tom Galizia about his work in the Covid contact tracing centre.

And Abroad

• Austria’s parliament on Thursday approved making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for adults from next month, becoming the first European country to do so despite a wave of protests opposing the measure.

• US broadcaster NBC will not send any of it specialist commentary teams to cover the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic due to fears over Covid-19, USA Today reported on Wednesday.

• World number three Garbine Muguruza blamed Covid-19 for her early exit from the Australian Open Thursday, revealing her entire team had been struck down in the lead-up to the tournament, hampering her preparations.

• Next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics can still be meaningful even with the general public locked out because of Covid-19, a top official from last year’s pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games has said.

• Thailand will resume its quarantine-free travel scheme from February 1, officials said Thursday, after the programme was suspended due to the fast-spreading Omicron Covid-19 variant.

• Spain is spearheading calls for governments to start tackling Covid-19 as any other endemic respiratory virus like seasonal flu, despite WHO opposition and warnings that the approach is premature.

• An app that Winter Olympics attendees must use has been patched, a Chinese official told AFP Thursday, after cyber security researchers said they had found a “simple but devastating” flaw that could allow data leaks.