Evening roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

In Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from Luxembourg show that 3 new cases of coronavirus and no deaths have been recorded since yesterday. This brings the total number of cases to 4,035, while the number of deaths remains at 110. With 1,261 tests carried out in the last 24 hours, the overall number of tests conducted in Luxembourg since the beginning of the outbreak now stands at 84,934. Only one patient is currently in intensive care (2 on Friday) while 29 remain in hospital (29 also on Friday).

  In international news

  • [block type="summary”]Dutch authorities on Saturday starting culling more than 1,500 minks after coronavirus infections surfaced at a farm. The cull at a mink farm in southern Netherlands, the epicentre of the country’s outbreak, was due to have started earlier but two animal rights groups tried to halt the slaughter. However, a judge turned down their plea on Friday.

    • Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s handling of the coronavirus crisis has allowed him to shed his reputation as a weak-willed puppet of other parties and even bolstered his country’s image abroad, some experts say.
    • President Jair Bolsonaro threatened Friday to pull Brazil from the WHO over “ideological bias,” as his counterpart Donald Trump said the US economy was recovering from the coronavirus pandemic and Europe sought to reopen its borders.