Daily roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show 86 cases from 5,115 tests.

• On Tuesday morning, the head of the National Health Directorate Dr. Jean-Claude Schmit joined our colleagues at RTL Radio for an interview.

And abroad

• On a global level, at least 212,428,950 cases of coronavirus have been registered. The vast majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms weeks or even months later.

• Covid infections are soaring in the sparsely populated Pacific territory of French Polynesia, with health authorities reporting 54 deaths from the virus over the weekend as the Delta variant spreads among a largely unvaccinated population.

• Japan’s emperor declared the Tokyo Paralympics open in a nearly empty stadium on Tuesday, with athletes ready to defy stereotypes and shatter records despite a year-long pandemic delay.

• Iran announced more than 700 deaths from the coronavirus Tuesday, yet another high for the Islamic republic as it struggles to contain a surge in infections.

• Brunei reported two coronavirus deaths Tuesday, the first fatalities from Covid-19 in the Southeast Asian nation in over a year as it battles a fresh outbreak. An 85-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man, both Bruneians, died after contracting lung infections following their admission to a quarantine centre this month, the health ministry said. It brings the total virus deaths in the sultanate on Borneo island to five since the start of the pandemic.

• The British government announced Monday that they are ordering 35 million additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech, scheduled for delivery from the second half of 2022, in order to protect itself from the coronavirus and its variants “for the years to to come”.