Maldives’ Covid-19 death toll has risen to 207 with an additional death reported on Tuesday.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that a 79-year-old Maldivian woman passed away on Monday night, while being treated at the Hulhumale’ Medical Facility (HMF).

While this pushes the country’s death toll to 2017, 46 deaths have been reported thus far in June.

As per the statistics released by HPA, a total of 111 deaths from Covid-19 were confirmed between April 28 and June 5 with a record number of deaths seen in May; 88 deaths.

The island nation has reported a total of 72,149 Covid-19 cases since the first one was detected in March 2020. And with the 67,148 recoveries recorded, there are currently less than 5,000 active cases across the island nation with 44 patients receiving treatment at medical facilities.

The latest government daily figures also show that a total of 315,282 people had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine while 183,373 had their second dose by Sunday.