Evening roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments from Luxembourg and abroad

Starting with Luxembourg:

• [block type="summary”]The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 103 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.

  Around the world:

  • Nearly a million Madrid residents were bracing Sunday for a partial lockdown as Spanish authorities seek to put a brake on a second wave of Covid-19.

  • Italians headed to the polls Sunday -- to the alarm of coronavirus experts -- for a referendum and regional elections that could weaken the government and radically reshape the political landscape.
  • Six months after Covid-19 turned off the music and lights at London’s Printworks and similar dance venues across Britain, there is no knowing when they will reopen.
  • TV stars picked out their favorite pajamas ahead of Sunday’s reinvented, pandemic-hit Emmys, which will see nominees accept prizes live from their homes, with dark superhero satire “Watchmen” tipped to dominate the night.
  • The novel coronavirus has killed at least 957,948 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1pm on Sunday.