Manama, Sept. 23 -- As the numbers of the COVID-19 contact to active cases upward trends have been sustaining for the past many days, the authorities have issued a stark warning on Wednesday urging people to follow the health guidelines to bend the curve in a week by October 1st.

The National Medical Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in its briefing on Wednesday highlighted the salient features of the strict implementation of health and safety guidelines aiming at mitigating the infections.

The sustained rise in the cases of the COVID-19 since the Muharram holy month and the 90 per cent or more cases on each day of contact to the active cases prompted the National Task Force to people to adhere to health and safety guid...