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 482 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday. Five deaths were also recorded.

  And from abroad

  • Along with its US partner Pfizer, BioNTech announced on Monday that their vaccine has proved 90 percent effective in ongoing Phase 3 trials, paving the way for them to apply for emergency use approval.

  • ...and, according to Dr Gérard Schockmel, infectious disease expert at the Robert Schuman Hospitals, this would be “spectacular”, should the result be confirmed. An expert in his field, Dr Schockmel researched RNA viruses at the universities of Oxford and Geneva.

  • [block type="summary”]Two more people close to US President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, according to media reports.