Another resident of capital city Malé has tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19).

This was confirmed by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) via Twitter on Friday.

As such, the person was identified as a direct contact of case 23, who was a direct contact of the first community transmitted case in the country, which was discovered on Wednesday.

The person is being taken into isolation.

The first positive case from the city was discovered early Wednesday morning, and two direct contacts of the Maldivian woman had tested positive as well, one of them is her child and the other is patient 23.

This brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the Maldives to 26, six are from the capital and these recent cases are the first documented cases of a community transmission.

The first patient from the Maldives capital had no recent travel history and consulted at the flu clinic in the capital after developing Covid-19-like symptoms.

242 contacts of these three patients are being tested and while 207 of them are contacts of the first two patients, the remaining 35 had come into contact with patient 23, 82 of them have been determined as high-risk contacts and seven are direct contacts of patient 23 while the rest are of the mother and child.