Evening roundupSaturday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad

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Everything you need to know about today's coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and abroad.
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In Luxembourg

  • [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 74 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of cases to 5,483, while the number of deaths remains at 111.

    In international news

    • Four million residents of Barcelona have been urged to stay at home as virus cases rise, while EU leaders were set to meet again in Brussels Saturday, seeking to rescue Europe’s economy from the ravages of the pandemic.

    • Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been moved to a Mumbai hospital along with her eight-year-old daughter, nearly a week after they were revealed to have the coronavirus, media reports said.

    • Australia’s parliament will be suspended for two weeks over fears that politicians could bring coronavirus from outbreak hotspots to the country’s capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday.

    • [block type="summary”]G20 finance ministers and central bankers are set to hold talks Saturday aimed at spurring global economic recovery from a coronavirus-triggered recession amid growing calls to widen debt relief for crisis-hit poor countries.

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