Official figures for Europe suggest unprecedented measures to restrict people's movements are working and that the peak may have hit on the continent.
However, Italy and Spain continue to bear the brunt of a pandemic that has kept millions of citizens confined to their homes, closed schools and businesses and overwhelmed healthcare systems.
Spain, which is under a near-total lockdown, has recorded a second successive daily fall in coronavirus-related deaths with 809 fatalities.
The total number of deaths in the country now stands at 11,744, second only to Italy. The number of new Spanish cases also slowed at 7,026, taking the total to 124,736.