Daily roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 877 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the last 24 hours.

• Luxembourg’s head of state, Grand Duke Henri, tested positive for Covid-19, the Grand Ducal Court announced on Tuesday.

• Luxembourg should prepare for short yet impactful Omicron wave, warns Dr Gérard Schockmel

• A growing number of experts have recently expressed their support for a vaccine mandate. The Chamber is set to discuss the matter this week.

• COPAS, the umbrella organisation of retirement and nursing homes, argues that a sectoral vaccine mandate would stigmatise the personal care sector and certain professional groups.

• In a tweet published on Tuesday morning, Minister of Education Claude Meisch expressed his support for making booster shots available to minors as well.

• Due to the ongoing pandemic, Fernand Etgen’s speech, the president of the Chamber, is being made in video format for the second year in a row.

And Abroad

• Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has tested positive for Covid-19, the club announced on Tuesday, the day after he played in a French Cup match.

• Bayern Munich are facing the possibility of not being able to field a team for Friday’s Bundesliga encounter with Borussia Moenchengladbach after Leroy Sane and Dayot Upamecano joined the long list of players hit by Covid-19 on Tuesday.

• India’s capital New Delhi will lock down over the weekend as authorities grapple with a fresh surge in coronavirus cases, partly fuelled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

• World number one Novak Djokovic said Tuesday that he was heading to the Australian Open to defend his title

  after being granted a medical exemption to play.

• Beijing sealed up its Winter Olympic “bubble” on Tuesday, preparing the Games venues, transport and staff

  for the world’s strictest mass sporting event since the global pandemic.

• Australia reported a record daily tally of nearly 50,000 Covid-19 cases Tuesday as the Omicron variant raced through the population and sent people scrambling for tests.

• Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered species, have received coronavirus vaccines at a Chilean zoo in a Latin American first.

• The Philippines will expand coronavirus restrictions in Manila from Wednesday to include more than 11 million people living near the capital as cases surge, the government said.

• More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in

  the country’s latest mass lockdown.

• Two unvaccinated French TV star twin brothers, who made their name on a science programme in the 1980s before becoming famous for their cosmetic surgery, have died within a week of each other from Covid-19, friends and family confirmed.

• In view of numerous corona cases on ships, cruise operations in Brazil will be suspended until 21 January.

• In a vaccination centre in Hanover, 21 boys and girls received the vaccine with the higher concentration for adults. The children were intended to receive the vaccine for five to eleven-year-olds.

• The United States recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant continues to spread at a blistering pace.