Evening roundup Wednesday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and around the world

Starting with Luxembourg:

• The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 46 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases to 4,345, while the number of deaths remains at 110.

• Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Minister of Health Paulette Lenert held a press conference addressing the recent rise in Covid-19 cases in Luxembourg, and urged the public to act responsibly after 24 people tested positive for the virus after attending the same party.

• People could be fined for not disposing of their masks correctly, as the Minister for the Environment said plans were afoot to fine people caught dropping/dumping their masks in nature areas.

• The Minister for Tourism confirmed on Twitter that every resident and cross-border worker over 16 would receive a €50 voucher in July as part of the plan to boost tourism sales, which have suffered due to the coronavirus crisis. Some 730,000 vouchers will be sent out over the course of the next fortnight.

And around the world:

• The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to conflicts to facilitate the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, after more than three months of painstaking negotiations, diplomats said.

• BioNTech of Germany and the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reported positive preliminary results on Wednesday from a joint project to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

• Europe opens its borders for travellers from 15 international countries on Wednesday including China – under certain conditions.

• A judge in Brazil on Tuesday dismissed a court ruling requiring President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a face mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• After coronavirus lockdowns that brought civil aviation to nearly a complete halt air traffic is slowly resuming in Europe as borders reopen, but tens of thousands of jobs are still hanging in the balance.

• Since the end of February, at least 7,000 people in Rheinland-Pfalz have been infected with the Coronavirus, according to new figures released on Wednesday.

• New York City will not proceed with indoor dining from next week as planned because of a nationwide surge in coronavirus infections, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

• The European Union must prepare for the possibility that talks with Britain on their post-Brexit relationship could fail, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Wednesday as Germany took the helm of the bloc’s rotating presidency. After months of standstill because of the coronavirus, the two sides resumed negotiations this week on how to define Britain’s future economic ties with the bloc, but the tone has hardened.

• US industries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic showed signs of life in June, with private firms hiring more than two million workers and the manufacturing sector starting to recover, according to new data released Wednesday.