Four deaths linked to Covid-19 were reported on Saturday.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported the latest victim close to 12am on Sunday, identifying the victim as a 63-year-old Maldivian woman who was being treated at the Hulhumalé Medical Facility.

Doctors at the facility pronounced her dead at around 10pm on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday HPA reported the death of three other locals, two women and one man. The man was the 194th Covid-19 victim and aged 92 at the time of his passing. He was admitted at Laamu Covid Management Facility.

On Saturday evening the public health authority reported the first maternal death linked to Covid-19. The victim was aged 25 and had on ventilator support on the 11th floor of Dharumavantha Hospital for 15 days before her demise. The woman was the 195th Covid-19 victim in Maldives.

The other woman who died from Covid-19 complications on Saturday was 84 years old and the 193rd Covid-19 victim.

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 196 lives in Maldives, including 147 in 2021 alone.

Maldives reported the highest number of deaths in a single month since the pandemic began, during May 2021, when a total of 88 deaths were confirmed. 35 deaths have been reported in June thus far.

With daily Covid-19 cases soaring above 1,000 into the beginning of May, authorities responded by strengthening Covid-19 precautionary measures and guidelines in place. Since then cases have been declining gradually with less than 300 new cases reported the last two days.