Daily roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

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French Health Minister Olivier Veran (R) speaks with a nurse as he visits a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Paris, on June 15, 2021, on the day France starts vaccinating teenagers from age 12 with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
French Health Minister Olivier Veran (R) speaks with a nurse as he visits a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Paris, on June 15, 2021, on the day France starts vaccinating teenagers from age 12 with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
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Starting with Luxembourg

And abroad

  • France on Tuesday expanded its Covid-19 inoculation drive to children aged 12 and over in a bid to achieve herd immunity and slow the spread of variants, including the Delta strain behind a surge of cases in the United Kingdom.

  • A huge red banner welcomed more than 11,000 students in Wuhan for a massive graduation ceremony over a year after the city was battered by the first global outbreak of Covid-19.

  • The WHO warned Monday that Covid-19 was moving faster than the vaccines, and said the G7’s vow to share a billion doses with poorer nations was simply not enough.

  • Dubai-based Emirates airline on Tuesday posted a $5.5 billion annual loss, its first in more than three decades, after the coronavirus pandemic devastated the aviation industry.

  • Americans are dining out in record numbers as pandemic restrictions lift, with restaurants struggling to keep up with demand amid a labor shortage, data released by review site Yelp showed Tuesday.

  • PremierLeague clubs reported a cumulative pre-tax loss of almost £1 billion ($1.4 billion) for the coronavirus-hit 2019-20 season, according to figures from finance company Deloitte.

  • The European Medicines Agency on Tuesday denied that a top official had suggested dropping the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, saying that he had been misinterpreted in an interview and believed its benefits outweighed its risks.

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