Covid-19: Maldives reports less than 100 cases for fourth consecutive day

Maldives reported less than 100 new Covid-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day, on Monday.

According to the latest statistics publicized by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) on Monday night, 91 cases were confirmed on Monday.,

According to the latest statistics publicized by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) on Monday night, the new infections of the global Covid-19 pandemic were confirmed through 7,999 samples tested within the past 24 hours.

Statistics indicate that 23 new cases were confirmed from the greater Male’ region, 61 from residential islands whereas the remaining seven were confirmed from resorts in operation.

With this development, Maldives Covid-19 case tally has risen to 75,162.

By sundown on Monday, Maldives active Covid-19 case count rose to 2,497 from the previous day’s 2,496. A total of 72,439 recoveries have been observed nationwide so far, with 90 recoveries reported by sundown on Monday.

Further, three Covid-19 patients moved from hospitals over the past 24 hours has reduced the number of hospital admissions to 15.

Not long after Maldives was able to control a spike in cases into the beginning of the year, the Covid-19 caseload began spiking in the beginning of May once again. This came not long after authorities lifted the measures in place before a fourth wave was confirmed, in time for the fasting month of Ramadan 1442 as well as the Local Council and Women’s Development Committee elections held in mid-April.

Measures were strengthened across the Maldives earlier in May with authorities having imposed a curfew in the capital region initially from 4pm to 4am. On May 26, the curfew hours were extended from 4pm to 8am and authorities also imposed movement restrictions for capital region residents outside the curfew hours. Following a decline in cases, public health authorities reduced curfew hours in the capital thrice round during June.

Effective July 8, the curfew has been lifted and a number of other eases have also been introduced by the government, including allowing fully vaccinated individuals to travel to islands not under monitoring without the need to quarantine, if they present negative PCR certification. All businesses have also been allowed to resume at their full capacity, with authorities even allowing restaurants and cafés to provide dine-in services until 11:30pm.

Maldives remains in a state of public health emergency since 12 March 2020 which was last extended to expire on 2 August.