MADRID, April 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) —Spain, which has been one of the countries worst hit in the coronavirus pandemic, has reported its lowest daily death toll in more than a month.
Its health ministry said that 288 more people had died of the virus, the lowest number since March 20.
The figure is a steep drop from the 378 deaths recorded on Saturday.
On Sunday, children under the age of 14 were allowed to leave their homes for the first time in six weeks. They are now allowed outside for one hour a day.
The health ministry said the total number of fatalities now stood at 23,190.
Fernando Simon, director of the Spanish Health Alert and Emergency Co-ordination Centre, said: “For the first time in a long time, we are below 300.”
The new lockdown conditions allow Spain’s 6.3 million under-14s to leave their homes each day for a total of one hour between 09:00 and 21:00, but without going further than one kilometre.
Bicycles, skates and skateboards are allowed, but public parks remain off-limits. The lockdown’s other conditions remain in place for the moment and schools remain closed; the government is considering loosening the lockdown further in the second half of May
