MANAMA: Bahrain yesterday registered a record test positivity rate of 1.90 per cent – the lowest since February, indicating the tremendous progress made in tackling Covid-19.

Bahrain’s average test positivity rate was 5pc in February and 4.5 in March, which went up to 6.3pc in April. The daily average shot up to a staggering 11.4pc last month.

The first week of June also maintained an almost similar average (11.8) but the 13 days (June 9 to 21) that followed witnessed a downward slide with the rates dropping to 6.6pc.

Test positivity rate – or Covid-19 per cent-positive rate – is the percentage of positive cases from daily tests conducted in a country/state. It indicates the possibility of a person contracting the infection from his/her community.

The Health Ministry said last night that Bahrain yesterday recorded 230 new cases alongside 576 recoveries and three fatalities.

Yesterday’s deaths bring the total fatalities to 1,348. The ministry said that of the new cases, 114 were expat workers, 107 contacts of local cases and nine travel-related.

An additional 576 people recovered, taking the total recoveries to 260,363.

Of the 3,766 active cases, 33 are receiving treatment and 99 in critical condition. Bahrain has so far registered a total of 265,477 cases. The kingdom has conducted 5,015,001 virus tests.

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