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The Spanish Health Ministry on Sunday confirmed that 410 people have died in the 24-hour period until 21:00 local time (1900 GMT) on Saturday, hitting a four-week trough while bringing the death toll to 20,453.
The daily information published by the ministry showed the new deaths were also considerably fewer than the 565 reported on Saturday.
The ministry has homogenized its criteria for collecting data -- only includes people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Weekends have also tended to see fewer deaths reported due to delays in collating the data from Spain's 17 autonomous communities.
The same period saw 4,218 new cases -- lower than the 4,499 cases on Saturday -- pushing the total infections to 195,944.
The new cases equate to a daily percentage increase of just 2.2 percent compared to 2.4 percent on Saturday and 2.9 and 2.8 percent in the preceding days, showing a continued fall in the number of new cases.
The ministry, which has begun to carry out increased numbers of tests to detect antibodies for the coronavirus, informed that a further 2,526 people have tested positive for antibodies. The results indicate that they were infected by the virus despite remaining asymptomatic.
Madrid continues to be the hardest-hit region in Spain with 54,884 confirmed cases and 7,239 deaths, while 3,933 people have died from 40,600 confirmed cases in Catalonia in the northeast of the country.
Meanwhile, 77,357 patients have recovered in Spain, 2,695 more than on Saturday.
This data is published a day after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that he would ask the parliament to extend the current State of Alarm for a further 15 days until May 9.
In a televised speech, Sanchez informed that this stage of the lockdown would be different as children would be allowed out of their homes for a period of time from April 27, although he didn't say in what conditions they would be able to go outside.
Spain imposed the State of Alarm on March 15, which was extended two times until April 25.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
