<span style="color: #222222;">Spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll from the Novel coronavirus in 17 days, with 605 people dying, the Government said today. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The figures showed the death rate is slowing to four percent, down from just under four percent yesterday in line with a trend which began on March 25 when it stood at over 27 per cent.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">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. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The 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.</span>