A second fatality linked to Covid-19 has been reported less than 24 hours since the latest death was confirmed.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) identified the deceased as an 87-year-old Maldivian man.
Doctors at the Hulhumalé Medical Facility (HMF) pronounced him dead at 1:28pm on Friday.
This is the third death to have been reported this ongoing month, and pushes the country’s death toll from coronavirus, to 229.
The 228th death was reported at 4:52pm on Thursday. The victim was an 89-year-old local man who was seeking treatment at the Covid Management Facility in Gaaf Dhaal atoll.
Maldives reported its first Covid-19 fatality in April 2020.
Of the 228 deaths linked to coronavirus, 179 have been reported thus far in 2021.
The island nation 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. 50 deaths were confirmed in June while 10 deaths were reported in July. In August, five Covid-19 patients succumbed to the virus.
