A 75-year-old local man has succumbed to complications of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) revealed that the man was being treated at Hulhumalé Medical Facility before he was pronounced dead by doctors at 08:49pm on Saturday.

This has pushed the Maldives Covid-19 death toll to 206.

Of this 157 were reported during this year. The country's first death was reported in April 2020.

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. June follows closely with 45 deaths reported 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, as well hospitalizations.