Manama, Sept. 20 -- The Kingdom of Bahrain on Saturday has announced 620 new COVID-19 cases and among them 519 new cases were contacts of active cases.

Out of 10531 COVID-19 tests carried out on 19 September 2020, 620 new cases have been detected among 98 expatriate workers, 519 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 3 are travel related. There were 599 recoveries from the COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries to 57299, the Ministry of Health says 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 has increased over the past two weeks, surpassing 750 cases on some of the previous days, due to non-compliance of health ...