A Local Contribution to the Global Pandemic: Bahrain’s COVID-19 Response

As the coronavirus rapidly spread around the world, Bahrain enacted an early prevention and preparation phase creating a ‘National Task force to Combat COVID-19′. In this article, Dr. Sh. Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Chairman of Derasat, summarizes Bahrain’s response, highlighting the important role attributed to teamwork across all segments of society, and to the crucial role of transparency in information being disseminated through the press and social media.