Evening roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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Starting with Luxembourg:

  • [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 230 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

    And around the world

    • Ireland will be the first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown, prime minister Micheal Martin said Monday, issuing a nationwide “stay at home” order but insisting schools will stay open.

    • At Severo Ochoa hospital in a Madrid suburb badly-hit during the pandemic’s first wave, the intensive care unit is once again full and exhausted medics dread a repeat of the same “horror”.

    • ...and on that note, fresh virus restrictions imposed in Spain’s two regional economic powerhouses, Catalonia and Madrid, have darkened the country’s already bleak growth forecasts and angered business leaders.

    • China’s super wealthy have earned a record $1.5 trillion in 2020, more than the past five years combined, as e-commerce and gaming boomed during pandemic lockdowns, an annual rich list said Tuesday.

    • India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra’s whirring factories to Kolkata’s thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.

    • [block type="summary”]British researchers on Tuesday said they hope to expose healthy volunteers to the virus that causes Covid-19 in a groundbreaking study to discover the amount needed for people to become infected.

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