Evening roundupAll of Sunday's major coronavirus news from Luxembourg and abroad

In Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health takes the total number of cases up by 12 to 3,824. The death toll now stands at 96. Luxembourg has carried out a total of 48,118 tests. In other words, 658 tests were carried out in the last 24 hours alone. All the numbers and graphs can be found here.

  In international news

  • Doctors treating Boris Johnson for coronavirus had prepared to announce his death after he was taken to intensive care, the British prime minister said on Sunday, in his first detailed comments about his illness.
  • Italy was spending its last day in total lockdown Sunday, but the partial easing of strict coronavirus measures after a two-month shutdown was causing anxiety and confusion rather than elation.
  • Nearly 3,000 cruise ship workers quarantined aboard a liner will undergo tests for the novel coronavirus, German travel group TUI said Sunday. “Mein Schiff 3" was being used to ferry 2,899 TUI employees and crew home with both cruises and the usual means of transport in much of Europe shut down by the pandemic.
  • The United States has long hailed its aid overseas as a sign of good intentions, but friends and foes alike are seeing opportunities of their own by helping the global power ravaged by the coronavirus.
  • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. But while highly critical of China’s handling of the matter, Pompeo declined to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released.