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19 May 2020 | Tue 22:42
Dharumavantha Hospital\'s eleventh floor is being used to treat Covid-19 patients
Dharumavantha Hospital's eleventh floor is being used to treat Covid-19 patients
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Covid-19 recoveries
Maldives records 86 Covid-19 recoveries
Additional six new recoveries reported on Tuesday
Recovery rate is slower than anticipated
13 of the recoveries are the cases reported prior to the detection of a community transmission, from resorts

Maldives has recorded an additional six recoveries from coronavirus.

National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC)’s spokesperson Mohamed Mabrook Aziz revealed that the total recoveries in the country has reached 86, at Tuesday night’s Covid-19 press briefing.

Speaking at the press conference, Dr. Ibrahim Afzal detailed that 15 recoveries were recorded on Monday and 12 thus far on Tuesday; the latter includes 11 foreigners and one local.

13 of the recoveries are the cases reported prior to the detection of a community transmission, from resorts.

Authorities have said that recovery rate is slower than anticipated, adding that it is taking an average of 17 days.

As per the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 Dashboard, the recovery rate has reached over seven percent.

Maldives has seen a total of 1,143 Covid-19 cases thus far, and there has been four deaths.

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