Delivery services will be allowed until 10am on Friday, authorities have revealed.

The reveal was made via Twitter by the Maldives Police Service (MPS) on Thursday night.

As such, authorities “will allow” delivery by shops as well as local restaurants and cafés to continue until 10am of Friday.

This comes at a time the entire Maldives has gone into lockdown following the emergence of five cases of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) in capital Malé City within the past few days.

Earlier, shops and local food outlets were allowed to do deliveries until 11pm.

Authorities earlier publicized a list of local shops and restaurants as well as cafés that have been permitted to make deliveries around the Greater Malé Region amid the lockdown. As such, special permit stickers for delivery services will be issued starting from Friday morning.

These stickers will be issued from 9am onward and the stations where they will be issued are;

Earlier, police announced the delivery hours for local shops and food outlets set during the 24-hour lockdown period announced on Wednesday and extended on Thursday.

Local shops and food outlets that have been permitted to deliver food and essentials to the people in the Greater Malé Region will be allowed to make delivery from 9am to 2pm, 3pm to 6pm and from 8pm to 11pm.

Authorities have been urging the public to refrain from visiting shops and to order essentials and food items through deliver.

As of Thursday, there have been 25 confirmed cases in the Maldives with the most recent five cases being discovered in the capital city during the past two days. Since then, the country has gone into a full lockdown, with travel between islands being banned as well.