Evening roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments

In Luxembourg:

• Confirmed cases of coronavirus rose by 38 to 1,988, as the number of deaths increased to 22.

• Minister of Health Paulette Lenert gave a comprehensive update on the number of patients in intensive care and the state of the healthcare system. You can find our live ticker coverage of her press conference here.

• Minister of Education Claude Meisch declared that it will be known by Friday whether Luxembourg's schools are to open again before the summer break.

• Low-cost social supermarkets have opened across the Grand Duchy, as Cactus announced that all their stores would be shut on Sundays from April 5.

• Volunteers from a non-profit organisation which normally specialises in creating baby clothes are sewing masks for key workers.

• A resident captured an amazing video of the silent streets of Luxembourg City in lockdown.

In Monday's international developments:

• Global coronavirus cases stand at 741,724, with 35,305 deaths and 156,838 recoveries. You can find more detailed statistics here.

• Moscow and Abuja became the latest capital cities to go into lockdown, as Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to ask for sanctions to be lifted.

• As cases continued to soar in the United States, President Donald Trump declared that the US death rate would probably not peak for another two weeks.

• Germany is betting on the South Korean model of widespread testing and quarantining to break the infection chain, while a Dutch ambulance was charged €6 by an overzealous toll worker in Belgium. 

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone into self-isolation after an aide tested positive, as Hungary's parliament gave Viktor Orban's government sweeping new powers to fight the virus. 

• The Tokyo Olympics will now be held from 23 July to 8 August 2021.

That's all for today's evening roundup. You can find the rest of today's stories in our live ticker.

We've got another 'Stream in Solidarity' session for you tonight, with Laetitia and Nicolas of Luxembourg band Go by Brooks performing on the RTL Today Facebook page from 8pm.

And in case you missed it, we've launched our new 'Learn Luxembourgish' series with a first lesson on greetings.

Bis Muer!

- The RTL Today team.