One more COVID-19 death

TDT |Manama

A 42-year-old expatriate man is the latest casualty to Bahrain’s COVID -19 battle. His death was announced by Bahrain’s Ministry of Health on its twitter handle. The fatality also raised Bahrain's overall toll to 196, yesterday. Ministry officials tweeted condolences to the family of the deceased. There are currently 89 patients who are receiving treatment for COVID-19, of which 30 people are in Critical care.

Some 3,930 active cases are there in Bahrain, out of which 3,900 cases are stable. The Ministry announced carrying out 10,075 COVID-19 tests yesterday raising the overall tests carried out in the Kingdom to 1,162,349. New 676 cases were also detected, of which 84 are expatriate workers, 590 are contacts of active cases, and two are travel related.

Bahrain also recorded 322 recoveries yesterday, taking the number of people cured of their infections to 50,645. The ministry also tweeted that it is still accepting volunteers for the phase III clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine. Volunteers are requested to head to (Hall 4) at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre. The centre, MoH said, will be receiving volunteers daily from 8 am to 8 pm.