A 41-year-old male citizen who tested positive after developing Covid symptoms infected 18 others from nine households through an Eid gathering.
The Health Ministry’s contact tracing highlights yesterday revealed 28 coronavirus cases linked to Eid family gatherings.
They were part of two clusters, while another 58 cases linked to four clusters were also featured.
The second cluster started from a 11-year-old Bahraini girl (case no 41233) who tested positive through random community screening.
“Through contact tracing, eight additional positive cases from five households were detected, all of whom are family members who have had direct contact with the index case at an Eid family gathering,” said the ministry.
“The cluster includes the index’s grandmother, aunts, uncles and other relatives.”
The other cases were from four clusters, which initiated from three citizens and one expatriate.
A 39-year-old Bahraini Covid patient (case no 40516) infected 11 people from four households, all of whom are immediate and extended family members.
A 55-year-old female citizen (case no 41023) who tested positive infected 11 family members from four different households of whom two were aged over 80 years.
A 22-year-old male citizen (case no 41550) who tested positive was discovered to have been linked to a cluster of 21 cases, all of whom are expatriates who work together. Of the cases linked to this cluster, 12 of them lived in the same accommodation.
Finally, a 26-year-old female (case no 40030) expatriate who tested positive infected a 15-person family household.
The ministry said there were 2,750 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from August 6 until Wednesday. Of these 1,611 were Bahrainis and 1,139 non-Bahrainis.
The daily average number of new cases went up this week to 392.2 compared with 314.7 last week.
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