[block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 182 new cases of coronavirus were discovered over the past 24 hours.
Minister of Health Paulette Lenert received her first jab of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday morning. A small photo gallery.
170 people were fined for breaking Covid restrictions over the past seven day, mostly the curfew.
Luxair lost around 70% of their usual customer numbers, but were helped through the crisis by investors and government measures. New destinations, are expected to replace the ones formerly popular but no longer profitable in light of current travel restrictions.
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And abroad
India‘s coronavirus death toll passed 250,000 on Wednesday as the World Health Organization said the variant fuelling the surge had been found in dozens of countries across the globe. Meanwhile, authorities in northern India said they have installed a net across the Ganges river after the bodies of dozens of suspected Covid-19 victims washed up.
At least five people died in Bangladesh Wednesday on an overcrowded ferry carrying more than a thousand passengers, as millions defied a coronavirus lockdown to head home for the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian states on Tuesday suspended immunisation of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after a reported death.
Senegal will receive 300,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine, a donation from China, said President Macky Sall and the Chinese embassy in Dakar.
A full, independent public inquiry into the British government’s handling of its response to the coronavirus pandemic will be held early next year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. He added he expected the inquiry, which is likely last over a year, will begin in the spring of 2022.
German travel giant TUI said Wednesday it was ‘optimistic’ about a strong summer rebound despite booking heavy losses once again between October and March. It added that it had already received 2.6 million bookings for the coming summer, with “new bookings doubling since April”.
France‘s love affair with cinema threatens to be an overwhelming experience next week, when theatres finally reopen -- the scheduling nightmare of a massive backlog of 400 films. With sports, French Open fans must show they are free from Covid-19 if they want to be among the small number of spectators allowed to attend the last five days of this year’s Roland Garros, organisers said Wednesday.
