Bahrain has converted the multi-storey car park of a military hospital into a 130-bed intensive care unit for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, and plans to set up four more field ICUs.

The international community should pressure Bahrain to release prisoners amid the Coronavirus epidemic, sports star Craig Foster told the Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights.

Bahrain's Attorney General, Ali Fadl Al-Buainain, said the Public Prosecution has completed its procedures to release 60 prisoners whom alternative penalty law procedures are applied to.

Gulf Air began on Monday (April 13, 2020) flying to Iran to repatriate Bahrainis stranded there due to the coronavirus crisis, the first direct flights between the two countries in four years.

Bahraini doctors graduating from Chinese universities volunteered as part of the Bahrain Health Team to participate in the National Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus.

The Ministry of Health announced the death of a 60-year-old male Bahraini national, a registered active case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) who was suffering from underlying and chronic health problems.

Bahrain Press Association (BPA) condemned transferring imprisoned journalist Mahmoud Al-Jaziri to solitary confinement for reporting on conditions inside Bahraini prisons and lack of real precautionary measures to confront Coronavirus, and held the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) responsible.

Bahrain yesterday recorded 115 new Coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases since the first one was announced on February 25, to 1040, 555 of whom recovered, while 459 cases remain in isolation and treatment centers.

Bahrain Transparency Society issued a statement on the increase of masks prices, saying that "the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued several decisions since the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic in the world, including setting the price of the normal mask at 100 fils for 3 months. The prices then increased to 140 fils.

Saudi Ambassador to Bahrain Sultan bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz confirmed that 965 Saudi nationals were evacuated from Bahrain.

The Ministry of Health of Bahrain recorded 73 new cases today early morning, 1 of which is from abroad, and the remaining 72 cases that are of expat workers.

MP Kaltham Al-Haiki called on the concerned parties, various associations and civil society actors and members of the legislative authority to address the issue of prisoners and detainees in this exceptional and sensitive circumstance with a humane perspective, free from any political or regional considerations or procedural complications, as "the situation we are going through is an emergent and difficult situation that we and the world have never experienced."

Jaw Prison director Hisham Al-Zayani punished a number of political prisoners who said that there are no real preventive measures to confront the Coronavirus, after the statement of National Institution of Human rights, Maria Khoury.

The Ministry of Health announced the death of a 63-year-old male Bahraini national, a registered active case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) who was suffering from underlying and chronic health problems.

At a time several countries in the Middle East responded to the repeated calls launched by the international and local human rights organizations to release prisoners, in order to avoid the Coronavirus outbreak, other states have not yet responded.

When jailed Bahraini activist Abdullah Habeeb Swar developed a bad cough that lasted several days, his 14 cell mates feared he might have contracted the coronavirus and would spread it through their overcrowded wing.

Bahraini Ministry of Interior took retaliatory measure against imprisoned journalist Mahmoud Al-Jaziri on (April 8, 2020) and transferred him to solitary confinement.

The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) issued a circular announcing the extension of temporary suspension of non-emergent medical services at all private healthcare facilities.

A 63-year-old Bahraini national died on Thursday morning, April 9, 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a number of Bahraini social media accounts announced.

Bahrain ambassador to Cairo, Hisham Al-Jowdar, affirmed that the embassy is securing the return of about 250 Bahraini citizens to the Kingdom of Bahrain in the upcoming days, due to the coronavirus pandemic, which will be conducted in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.