Evening roundupMonday's key coronavirus developments

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Good evening. Here are the most important national and international stories of the day concerning the coronavirus pandemic.
The world's smallest woman urged Indians to respect social distancing measures.
The world's smallest woman urged Indians to respect social distancing measures.
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In Luxembourg

  • Joseph Rodesch of the Luxembourg National Research Fundoffered advice on the wearing of masks.
  • A fake screenshot purporting to be from the RTL live ticker is circulating on social media
  • The Chamber of Deputies will temporarily move from the Marché aux Herbes to the Place d'Armes in order to maintain sanitary measures without interrupting parliamentary work. 

In Monday's international developments

  • Global coronavirus cases stand at 1,883,119 with 116,098 deaths and 443,816 recoveries. You can find more detailed statistics here.
  • The US may start opening up as early as May according to its top doctor, as a sailor on the USS Theodore Roosevelt died of coronavirus.
  • France's president Emmanuel Macron will warn that the French lockdown must go on, while the situation in the Grand Est is stabilising

That's all for today's evening roundup. You can find the rest of today's stories in our live ticker.

In tonight's social distancing sessionAlena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko will be performing some world-class classical on the RTL Today Facebook page from 8pm.

And on bank holiday Easter Monday, you can spend some of your time off enjoying the next instalment in our Learn Luxembourgish series, or brushing up on the history of Portuguese migration to the Grand Duchy.

Bis Muer!

The RTL Today team.

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