Evening roundupTuesday's key coronavirus news from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 53 new cases of coronavirus were recorded yesterday. The death toll remains at 118.

  • Police patrols have regularly checked popular gathering places including restaurants, cafés and bars over the last week to ensure the businesses are observing curfews and hygiene measures.

  And around the world

  • The coronavirus pandemic is worsening the humanitarian situation in the world’s deadliest conflicts and threatens to unleash economic devastation that will intensify violence, United Nations diplomats and experts warn.

  • Millions of people in the Philippines were ordered to stay home Tuesday as global coronavirus infections kept soaring, with the World Health Organization warning against relying on a vaccine “silver bullet” to end the pandemic.

  • France could “change course at any moment” to a runaway spread of coronavirus, the government’s COVID-19 scientific council warned Tuesday as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since April.
  • The novel coronavirus has killed at least 694,507 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December.
  • According to reports in the German paper, Trierischer Volksfreund, there was a curious coronavirus incident on a regional train at Trier Central Station over the weekend.
  • Young people have recently been at the centre of the debate concerning the spread of the virus, in France and other countries.