Daily roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 1,050 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Fewer people tested positive for Covid-19 between 31 January and 6 February than during the previous week.

• The Ministry of Health has clarified that a fourth booster will be offered to people who are considered immunocompromised, rather than all over-65s, as was previously reported.

• On Thursday, the new Covid-19 law was discussed in the Parliamentary Health Commission. It was decided to incorporate all of the proposals made by the Council of State.

• The majority of healthcare workers in Luxembourg are vaccinated. This was revealed by Minister of Health Paulette Lenert in an answer to a parliamentary question.

And abroad

• Top-ranked 20-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, prevented from playing the Australian Open because he was not vaccinated for Covid-19, is entered in next month’s Indian Wells ATP event.

• Police and anti-vaccine protesters clashed on the grounds of New Zealand‘s parliament Thursday, with more than 50 arrested after demonstrators who camped outside the legislature for three days were ordered to move on.

• New York on Wednesday joined a wave of Democrat-run US states to roll back mask mandates, as health officials increasingly talk about America moving towards a phase where Covid-19 doesn’t disrupt daily lives.

• Paris police said Thursday they would ban so-called “freedom convoys” inspired by a truckers’ protest against coronavirus restrictions that has paralysed the Canadian capital Ottawa.

• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lambasted trucker-led protests that have shut down central Ottawa in anger at Covid-19 health rules.

• French energy giant TotalEnergies on Thursday rebounded from the Covid crisis with a huge 2021 profit as oil and gas prices soared -- a performance that raised political hackles in an election year in France.

• British Covid vaccine maker AstraZeneca on Thursday warned that coronavirus product sales and profit margins would drop this year as the pandemic recedes.

• Prince Charles, the eldest son and heir to Queen Elizabeth II, is isolating after testing positive for coronavirus for the second time, his office said on Thursday.

• A gender-swapped update of a German cult classic on Thursday opened the Berlinale, Europe’s first major international film festival of the year, which organisers are staging as a live event despite surging coronavirus infections.

• The Scots beat Wales in Llanelli in 2020 in a match played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic but have not tasted victory in the Welsh capital since 2002.

• French researcher Luc Montagnier, who has died at 89, shared the Nobel medicine prize for his vital early discoveries on AIDS, but was later dismissed by the scientific community for his increasingly outlandish theories, notably on Covid-19.