MANAMA, July 2 -- The Ministry of Health has said that out of 10126 COVID-19 tests carried out on July 1, and 656 new cases have been detected among them were 435 expatriate workers. Officials confirmed five deaths on Wednesday and one on Thursday, taking the total tally to 93.

There were 218 new cases were contacts of active cases, and three are travel related. There were 617 recoveries from the COVID19, increasing total recoveries to 21948.

As the Kingdom has ramped up testing over the past few months the total number of tests have surged to 564365. The number of active cases as of July 1st, were 5374 among them 5322 were stable and 52 remained in a critical condition. The active cases receiving treatment were 84, according to the off...