BAHRAIN has recorded a 70 per cent slump in coronavirus infections in the last 10 days of February compared to the rest of the month.
However, the month also saw the highest death toll (46) compared to the previous eight months.
From February 19 to Monday, 29,720 cases were recorded, a 73.12pc drop from 110,587 in the previous week. The month also saw a nearly 52pc increase in cases – 140,307 compared to 92,513 in January.
A total of 514,883 people have been infected in the country until Monday which is more than 34pc of Bahrain’s estimated 1.5 million population. This included 25,648 active cases and 487,781 recoveries along with 1,454 fatalities.
The first two months of the year recorded 232,820 cases (15.5pc of the population) the while the remaining 282,063 cases (18.8pc of the population) were recorded until last year since the onset of the pandemic.
Bahrain recorded its first Covid-19 case on February 25, 2020 when a 28-year-old Bahraini school driver who returned from Iran tested positive.
The number of daily cases in the last five days (February 24 to 28) dropped to an average of 2,600, from more than 4,000 in the previous six days (February 18 to 23).
The number of daily RT-PCR tests conduct has fallen significantly, from 19,374 on February 18 to 11,217 on February 28.
In the first 17 days of the month, the number of tests performed ranged between 28,000 and 21,000, with the highest being 33,630 on February 3.
The highest daily case count in February was 8,173 cases on February 1 and the lowest was 2,416 cases on February 26.
There were 60 Covid-19 fatalities this year – 14 in January and 46 in February.
A total of 1,042 people died last year compared to 352 from March to December 2020.
Bahrain recorded its first Covid-19 death on March 16, 2020.
The total death toll until February 28 (1,454) is 0.28pc of the total number of cases.
Active cases also dropped – from 39,798 on February 18 to 25,648 on Monday.
However, cases under intensive care maintained an average of 17 cases daily from February 19 to 28.
The test positivity rates, or the Covid-19 positive rate (percentage of positive cases from daily tests performed), also remained high.
The positivity rate which stood at 17.67 on February 19, increased to 22.97 on Monday.
Positivity rate denotes the possibility of an individual contracting the infection from his or her community.
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