Spain recorded Wednesday a second successive daily rise in coronavirus-related deaths with 757 fatalities, lifting the total toll in Europe's second-hardest-hit country after Italy by 5.5% to 14,555.
The number of new infections rose by 4.4% to 146,690, the health ministry said, as Spain has ramped up its testing for the disease.
The number of daily deaths, which peaked on Thursday at 950, rose for the first time on Tuesday after falling for four straight days.
But the rate of increase in both deaths and new infections on Wednesday was largely in line with that recorded the previous day, and half of what was recorded just a week ago. "We have consolidated the slowdown in the spread of the virus," Health Minister Salvador Illa tweeted after