Maldives reported 170 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, after four consecutive days of cases below the 100-mark.

According to the data updated by the Health Protection Centre (HPA) on Tuesday, the new cases were confirmed from the over 6,700 samples tested within 24 hours.

78 of the 170 new cases are from residential islands, 60 from islands under development while 19 are from the greater Male’ region, seven from operational resorts, five from industrial islands and one from a liveaboard vessel.

While this pushes the country’s Covid-19 case count to 75,332, with the 130 recoveries reported on Tuesday, a total of 72,569 persons have recovered from the virus.

With thes developments as well as the 214 deaths confirmed, the island nation’s active coronavirus cases increased to 2,537 from the previous day’s 2,497. 17 patients are currently admitted at hospitals for treatment.

While the government began easing Covid-19 restrictions last year following a decline in cases, the spike of over 1,000 daily cases seen from April was confirmed as a "fourth wave" and forced authorities to strengthen the restrictions especially in the capital.

These measures have been eased thrice since as the country’s Covid-19 situation continued to improve, including lifting of the curfew in the capital.

Other eases effective from July 8 include allowing fully vaccinated individuals to travel to islands not under monitoring without the need to quarantine as well as reducing quarantine period of inbound travelers, with a negative PCR test. 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.

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