Daily roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 103 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 72 hours.

• A cluster of Covid infections has been detected in a Sanem retirement home.

• Alain Rix, the president of the Horesca Federation, expressed his dissatisfaction regarding the new, stricter CovidCheck system that will apply from 1 November in cafés, hotels, and restaurants.

• Municipalities can decide independently whether they want to impose the CovidCheck system inside their facilities, announced minister Taina Bofferding.

• During the pandemic, the number of work-related accidents in Luxembourg decreased by over 20%, while accidents on the commute to work even decreased by a third.

And abroad

• New Zealand recorded its highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic on Tuesday as a Delta-variant outbreak that dashed the nation’s “Covid Zero” hopes showed no signs of easing.

• Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said on Monday that the Baltic state will go into lockdown for a month due to surging coronavirus infections and a poor vaccination rate.

• The Frankfurt book fair, the world’s largest, opens its doors this week to a publishing industry in robust health after the pandemic boosted reading -- but supply chain concerns threaten to dampen the mood.

• Moscow’s mayor on Tuesday ordered the city’s first coronavirus restrictions since the summer, as Russia registered 1,015 daily COVID deaths, a new record.