Manama, Sept. 22 -- The Ministry of Health has confirmed 713 new COVID-19 cases and reporting three more deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours taking the total death tally to 224 as of Monday.

The spike in contacts of active cases remains unabated for the past many days with 563 such cases on Monday out of the total 713 new cases reported by the authorities.

Out of 11438 COVID-19 tests carried out on 21 September 2020, 713 new cases have been detected among 146 expatriate workers, 563 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 4 are travel related. There were 676 recoveries from the COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries to 58626, the Ministry of Health has confirmed on its website and social media channels.

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