It has been revealed that two of the five confirmed Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases on Friday are unrelated to any previous case or each other.
The reveal was made via a press conference on Friday evening where Covid-19 spokesperson Mabrook Aziz and Dr. Nazla Rafeeq joined to provide the latest updates regarding the Covid-19 situation in the Maldives since new clusters have been discovered in the capital Malé City within the past two days.
As such, Mabrook revealed that patient 27 and 28 have no connection to previously confirmed cases in the country. A total of 28 Covid-19 cases have emerged in the island nation. Out of this total amount, 16 patients have recovered and there are nine active cases, all local. An airport representative is among the positive cases and he is the spouse of patient 23.
As of Friday, there have been three clusters of the pandemic, reordered as the first documented cases of a community transmission, and a total of 1,503 individuals have been quarantined and 61 isolated in the facilities established across the nation by the government.
111 samples have also been taken from individuals in quarantine facilities, who will be released if the test results come back negative.
Other developments include monitoring measures on Kaashidhoo island being lifted after placing a number of individuals in isolation.
JOALI Maldives, Bodufushi Resort Construction Site and Maldiviana Safari are currently under monitoring, including four new locations in capital city Malé including Malé Square, Park Side in Henveiru and Flight View and Venus in Maafannu.
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. 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.
