Evening roundupSunday's key coronavirus developments in Luxembourg and around the world

Starting with Luxembourg

• [block type="summary”]The Ministry of Health‘s latest figures show that two new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Luxembourg on Sunday, bringing the total to 3,992. The number of deaths rose by 1 to 110.

  • According to the Ministry of Health, the number of cases in the construction sector, hairdressers and other businesses, is very low.
  • This Monday is back to school day for all children aged between 3 and 11 in Luxembourg. Here’s all you need to know.
  • Hospitality establishments are making use of the weekly market on Place Guillaume II to offer take-away items to shoppers.

  And news from around the world
  

  • Muslims around the world began marking a sombre Eid al-Fitr Sunday, many under coronavirus lockdown, but lax restrictions offered respite to worshippers in some countries despite fears of skyrocketing infections.
  • China is “open” to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus, but any investigation must be led by the World Health Organization and “free of political interference”, according to its foreign minister.
  • China also said Sunday that relations with the United States were “on the brink of a new Cold War”, fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Women in Russia have been left especially vulnerable to domestic abuse during the lockdown.
  • French churches were preparing to hold their first Sunday masses in more than two months after the government bowed to a ruling that they should be reopened -- provided proper precautions were taken.
  • Spain said it would let in foreign tourists and restart top league football in the coming weeks, accelerating Europe’s exit from strict coronavirus lockdowns, even as the disease continued its deadly surge in parts of South America.