Evening roundupTuesday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg:

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 86 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases to 5,725, while the number of deaths remains at 111. 357,637 tests have been carried out in Luxembourg since the start of the outbreak, a rise of 9,027 since Monday’s update.

  • The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology noted an increase in the concentration of Sars-Cov-2 in Luxembourg’s wastewater.
  • In its most optimistic scenario, the Banque centrale du Luxembourg has forecast a decline of 6.1% for the rest of 2020, but according to its most pessimistic scenario, the economy could decline by as much as 13.4% in 2020.
  • From 24 August 2020, the Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth will make thematic files for the main disciplines available to students in both primary and secondary education, for different classes. This way students can catch up on topics that were hard to follow during the pandemic.
  • Following Tuesday’s agreement at the EU summit, Luxembourg will receive 100 million euros as part of the EU recovery plan.

  Around the world

  • Brazil’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 Monday, according to health ministry figures. The figure, second only to the death toll in the United States, quadrupled in two months. Brazil passed the mark of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths on May 21.

  • Two studies offered new hope of a potential vaccine for the coronavirus on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned about a possible acceleration of the disease in Africa.
  • The European Union’s 27 member states emerged from an intense four-day and four-night summit on Tuesday branding a huge virus recovery plan and a trillion-euro long-term budget. Here are the five key points.
  • Florida’s main teachers union on Monday sued Governor Ron DeSantis and other authorities to stop schools from reopening in August, as the state has become a US epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Anyone going to China will have to prove they don’t have coronavirus before boarding their flight, Beijing announced Tuesday.
  • US President Donald Trump will resume regular televised coronavirus briefings Tuesday in a possibly fraught bid to restore his standing with US voters who accuse him of badly fumbling the pandemic response.
  • Meanwhile two Chinese nationals have been indicted for seeking to steal COVID-19 vaccine research and intellectual property from hundreds of companies in the United States and other countries, the US Justice Department said Tuesday.
  • Professional social network LinkedIn said Tuesday it was cutting 960 jobs, or six percent of its workforce, as the global pandemic has hit demand for its paid recruitment services.
  • British state borrowing rocketed to a record £127.9 billion in the three months to June owing to the huge cost of emergency coronavirus stimulus measures, official data showed Tuesday.