Manama, Sept. 18 -- The Ministry of Health has reported 705 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday out of which 576 cases are contacts of the active cases.

The number of critical cases reaching 40 and one death reported on Thursday taking the total death tally to 217 from the COVID-19.

Out of 12796 COVID-19 tests carried out on 17 September 2020, 705 new cases have been detected among 119 expatriate workers, 576 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 10 are travel related. There were 643 recoveries from the COVID-19, increasing total recoveries to 56807, the Ministry of Health confirms on its website.

The National Medical Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in its briefing highlighted that the number of active COVID-19 cases...