The National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has revealed that there are currently over 300 individuals at transit quarantine facilities.

This was revealed by the Covid-19 spokesperson, Mohamed Mabrook Aziz during Sunday night’s routinely press briefing to update the public regarding the current Covid-19 situation in the Maldives.

As such, Mabrook revealed that 323 island residents stranded in the Greater Malé Region due to the lockdown, have been moved to transit quarantine facilities.

More individuals will be taken in accordance with space availability at the facilities.

Mabrook also added that there are 97 individuals currently placed in temporary shelters after being rescued from the streets due to the lockdown.

In an earlier press, Mabrook revealed that the government’s protocol to be followed in evacuating island residents from the capital has been amended following which authorities halted the transfer of these individuals to quarantine facilities in islands.

This was done in order to ensure the disease does not spread among the island communities. Due to these changes, several island residents stranded in the capital have been raising concern.

As such, these island residents will only be allowed to return to their islands after completing a 14-day quarantine period and testing negative for the Covid-19 virus.

Following the lockdown imposed across the Greater Malé Region on April 15 after the first community transmission was detected in the region, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) also banned travel between inhabited islands.