COVID-19: Two deaths, 34,826 recoveries

TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s Ministry of Health yesterday announced two more COVID-19 linked deaths yesterday, raising the total number of fatalities to the outbreak in the Kingdom to 136. A Bahraini man aged (66) and an expatriate man aged (61) are the latest casualties. The deaths announced through the Ministry’s twitter feed do not release any further information of the deceased.

Ministry officials expressed their condolences to the families of the deceased. There are currently 3,496 active cases in the Kingdom, of which 3,448 patients are in a stable health condition. Some 80 people are undergoing treatment at various COVID-19 centres in the Kingdom, out of which 48 patients are critically ill.

The ministry said it carried out 10,767 tests yesterday, bringing the total number of tests carried out in the Kingdom since the inception of the pandemic here to 771,500. Some 462 new cases are detected yesterday, which includes 226 expatriate workers, 225 contacts of active cases and 11 travel related cases.

By recording 414 new recoveries yesterday, the number of people cured of their infection in the Kingdom now stands at 34,826. Meanwhile, total number of cases in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has climbed over 604,000. Total death toll has zoomed to over 5,000. Saudi continues as the most affected country in the GCC with it announcing 37 more deaths and 2,378 confirmed cases yesterday.