Prime Minister's Court announced that Khalifa bin Salman will return to Bahrain on Friday, March 20, 2020.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi issued a statement thanking "all the official parties, medical cadres including doctors, nurses, paramedics, and volunteer teams for their efforts to combat the Corona epidemic."

The government of Bahrain announced a BHD 4.3bn economic stimulus package to support the country's citizens and private sector and counter the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Residents of Jidhafs village said that the family of coronavirus victim buried her in Al-Imam cemetery in the village amid special severe health measures.

The spiritual leader of Shia majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, thanked the recently released for asking people not to visit them due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Sheikh Qassim appreciated this act and called on those to be released later to do the same.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society called on citizens to volunteer to combat the Coronavirus.

Activists said that Haj Hamid Mostafa Jawad Ahmad died on Monday (March 16, 2020) in a heart stroke. He is the fifth Bahraini to die among those stranded in Iran.

A Bahraini woman has died from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Monday, marking the first death from the disease among Gulf Co-operation Council states.

Morocco has suspended flights to and from another 25 countries over coronavirus fears, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, extending an earlier travel ban that covered China, Spain, Italy, France and Algeria.

Formula One will call off the next two races in Bahrain and Vietnam after the cancellation of Sunday's Australian season-opener due to the coronavirus outbreak, multiple F1 sources told Reuters on Friday.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued a royal decree pardoning 901 inmates for humanitarian reasons, in the backdrop of the current circumstances.

Bahraini Interior Minister accused Iran of "biological aggression" by covering up the spread of the coronavirus and failing to stamp Bahraini travelers' passports.

Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has directed the citizens to suspend all religious and social activities due to the Coronavirus outbreak until further notice. He said "this suspension must continue until there is no more danger in order to preserve lives, which cannot be sacrificed without clear permission from the Islamic Law."

The Ministry of Health said that the number of arrivals on the plane leased from the Ministry of Health as part of the plan to evacuate Bahraini citizens from Iran reached 165 citizens, who were subjected to laboratory tests immediately after arrival.

Bahrainis were surprised on Wednesday (March 11) with the release of a large group of convicts over political background.

Bahrain's authorities should overturn the death sentences following unfair trials against two men who say they were tortured, Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said. The Court of Cassation, Bahrain's court of last resort, will issue the final verdict in the coming weeks.

Bahrain's Formula 1 Grand Prix scheduled for March 20-22 will be held without spectators, the organizers said on Sunday in the latest sporting event to be hit by measures to contain the new coronavirus.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, said that regime in Bahrain is preventing citizens stranded in Iran from returning to the country for political reasons, stressing that the regime is dealing in a non-national way, since all countries dealt with the issue in a different way.

Saudi Arabia's decision to close its land border (including the border with Bahrain via the King Fahd Causeway) is to come into effect on Saturday (March 7, 2020) night. Its decision comes within a series of precautionary measures taken by the Kingdom to counter the Coronavirus.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, criticized the King's decision to hold the Jafaria Endowments (Waqf) economically responsible for returning Bahraini citizens stranded in Iran after the outbreak of the coronavirus there.