Spain sees lowest COVID-19 daily toll in 17 days

Spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll from the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in 17 days, with 605 people dying, the government said on Friday. | AFP

A worker pushes an elder man on a wheelchair outside an elderly people nursing home in Burgos in northern Spain on April 9, 2020. – Spain’s daily death toll from the coronavirus fell to 683 on Thursday, after rising for two days, the authorities said. The country, one of the worst hit by the pandemic, has now recorded 15,238 deaths from COVID-19. The daily toll was down from 757 Wednesday.

MADRID — Spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll from the new coronavirus in 17 days, with 605 people dying, the government said on Friday. The update raised the overall number of fatalities to 15,843 in Spain, which has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of COVID-19 in the world, and where the total number of confirmed cases now stands at 157,022.The figures showed the death rate slowing to four percent, down from just under four percent on Thursday in line with a trend which began on March 25 when it stood at over 27 percent.

The rate of infection also slowed, with 4,576 new cases over the past 24 hours, while the number of people who recovered from the virus rose to 55,688.

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