With two more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in the Maldives on Sunday morning, the country’s Covid-19 death toll has reached 125.

Over the past 24 hours the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported four more Covid-19 fatalities, all Maldivians admitted at Hulhumalé Medical Facility for treatment.

As such, the 122nd Covid-19 victim was identified as a 59-year-old man who passed away at 4:15pm on Saturday while receiving treatment,

After sundown the same day HPA reported the 123rd victim, identified as a 39-year-old woman who died at 8:25pm.

HPA revealed that a 66-year-old man succumbed to Covid-19 complications at 8:07am on Sunday, making him the 124th victim of the fatal infection. A few hours later another Covid-19 fatality was confirmed, when a 62-year-old woman was pronounced dead by doctors at 10:49am.

HPA continues to report alarming numbers of Covid-19 fatalities across the Maldives, as the country struggles to control a devastating surge in daily infections being reported over recent weeks. Maldives is currently experiencing a devastating Covid-19 peak like never observed before, with daily infections soaring above 1,000 over recent days.

The pandemic has claimed 76 lives in the Maldives during 2021, 52 of which have been reported thus far in May. This is the highest number of deaths to have been reported in a month since the pandemic began sweeping across the island nation on 7 March 2020.

Authorities earlier stressed that Covid-19 fatalities had doubled in count since January 2021. As such, while four deaths were observed in January, the number increased to 10 during February. Six Covid-19 fatalities were reported during March as well as April.

With an alarming spike in case count over the past few days, hospitalizations are also increasing in comparison to the past month. Currently there are 294 Covid-19 patients hospitalized for treatment. There has been increasing concern over hospital beds filling up across the Maldives capital, hit hardest by the pandemic.

Maldives active Covid-19 tally is currently over 22,000 with the country’s total case count exceeding the 54,000-mark. Authorities have imposed strict measures in the capital region as well as in outlying atolls in light of the spiking cases. As such, a 12-hour curfew is effective in Maldives capital from 4pm to 4am in authorities' efforts to slow the spread of the deadly infection.