Spain has reported its lowest daily death count in nearly three weeks after 510 people died with the new coronavirus between Friday and Saturday. That is down from a national high of 950 fatalities reported April 2.
The country saw a slight uptick in confirmed infections with 4,830 new cases reported, compared to 4,576 the day before.
Spain has confirmed 161,852 infections and 16,353 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak, making it and Italy the hardest hit countries in Europe. Over 59,000 Spaniards have recovered from COVID-19.
A month-long national lockdown has helped Spain slow the daily increase in the numbers of infected people from over 20% two weeks ago to 3%.
Given the harsh economic impact of the measures which threaten to hurl the country into recession, the government will start to roll back some controls Monday when factory and construction workers will be allowed to return to work for the first time in two weeks. All other activities, except for leaving home for essential food and medicine, will still remain prohibited.
Roadblocks have been set up to prevent unauthorized travel during the Easter holidays.
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