COVID-19: Bahrain Reports 190 Recoveries

Bahrain Health Ministry has announced on Wednesday the recovery of thirteen more patients from Coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.

This brings the total number of fully recovered cases in Bahrain to 190.

The Gulf kingdom took a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, including the closure of educational institutes and a ban on traveling to some countries, as well as suspension of Friday and congregational prayers in mosques.

It is worth mentioning that, several Arab countries have tightened restrictions on movement and travel, with the aim of curbing the spread of the Coronavirus, and some have pledged billions of dollars in economic stimulus programs to reduce the economic repercussions of the crisis.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.

Transmission of virus between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.