Daily roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg...

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 118 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Luxembourg is set to donate 350,000 vaccine doses through the COVAX programme to support other countries in the fight against Covid-19.

• Due to a Covid-19 infection, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is currently in hospital and has issued a “delegation of signature” to finance minister Pierre Gramegna. Here is what that means.

• We recently carried out a poll of our readers on the return to working from the office, and only 8% of our nearly 1,500 respondents want a full (5 days per week) return. More on that here.
• Dr Jean Reuter, an intensive care practitioner at CHL, was a guest on RTL Radio, where he noted that hospital staff can finally recover from infection waves.

...And abroad

• Indonesia is sourcing emergency oxygen for virus patients from neighbouring Singapore and calling for help from other countries including China with the archipelago slammed by its deadliest Covid-19 wave, the government said Tuesday.

• A growing number of countries and territories around the world are forcing people, often in specific sectors, to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

• How effective are Covid vaccines if your immune system is compromised by HIV, cancer or a recent organ transplant? Faced with very little data -- and fears that some of these patients could be particularly vulnerable to the virus -- scientists are seeking to figure out how to best protect them.

• Fans are likely to be banned from the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony over virus fears, but a reduced number of VIPs and Olympic officials will be able to attend, a Japanese newspaper reported.