Evening roundupThursday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

In Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 163 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases to 5,285, while the number of deaths remains at 111. 314,956 tests have been carried out in Luxembourg since the start of the outbreak, a rise of 12,144 since yesterday.

  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement summarising German regulations applying to residents of the Grand Duchy.
  • Under the banner “nothing works without us”, OGBL demands a 10% increase in health care workers employed in the country’s hospitals, nursing homes, as well as the wider social sector. The union’s representatives underlined that recent months had reaffirmed the graveness of the problem.

  In international news

  • Britain on Thursday risked worsening fraught diplomatic ties with Russia by accusing Moscow-linked hackers of targeting labs conducting coronavirus vaccine research.
  • With all the talk of Luxembourg’s infection rates and the possibility of borders being closed, Pfalz is also in the midst of an uptick.
  • European officials warned Wednesday that a feared second wave of coronavirus infections could coincide with the continent’s winter flu season, and urged member states to prepare.
  • The United States government rescinded its controversial decision to revoke foreign student visas whose courses move online due to coronavirus, a federal judge said Tuesday.