Manama, June 29 -- The Ministry of Health on Sunday has detected 438 new cases of the COVID-19 which include 279 expatriate workers.

The death tally from the pandemic recorded five more deaths taking the total number to 83 and there were 5105 active cases while active cases receiving treatment were 74 and stable were 5064 and 41 were in critical condition, according to the statistics issued by the Ministry.

The total number of tests reached 536516 and the additional recoveries were 736 taking the total number of recovered patients to 20516.

"Out of 7274 COVID-19 tests carried out on 28 June 2020, 438 new cases have been detected among 279 expatriate workers, 150 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 9 are travel related. There we...