The government has lifted the measures implemented across outlying atolls, against the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in late May.

The precautionary measures were implemented on May 29, under the orders of the Director General of Health, Maimoona Aboobakuru under section 34 of the Public Health Protection Act of the Maldives, at a time a nationwide State of Public Health Emergency is also in effect since March 12.

The measures enforced on all inhabited islands outside of the Greater Malé Region included banning travel between inhabited islands unless essential or to seek medical treatment and maintaining social and physical distancing on the roads as well as adhering to instructions by the HPA and other relevant authorities.

Other measures included ordering local councils to work with relevant stakeholders to provide essential food, items and supplies to the people and permitting movement within the island as well as economic and social activities and general services while keeping the measures in place, in all inhabited islands except for ones that are still under monitoring or have not surpasses 14 days since monitoring measures were lifted.

In a statement issued on Sunday night, the Director General of Public Health announced that the measures have since been lifted.

HPA had noted while implementing said measures, that they will be lifted in accordance with the extent of the spread of Covid-19 in the Maldives.

Although the virus is yet to be eradicated from the island nation, the government began implementing the lockdown ease plan on May 29, and it is currently in phase two, where several measures have been eased and a number of restrictions have been lifted.