The Director General of Public Health, Maimoona Aboobakuru who was hospitalized on Friday, has since been discharged.

On Saturday, local news media outlets cited the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC)’s spokesperson, Mohamed Mabrook Aziz having confirmed that the island nation’s top health official was hospitalized following health complications, unrelated to Covid-19. It has been confirmed that she is not suffering from anything serious.

Further details were not disclosed by the task force citing privacy reasons, however, it has been confirmed that she is now doing well, after being hospitalized for a short while.

RaajjeMV was unable to get a comment from Mabrook at the time of publishing.

Ever since the first cases were discovered in the island nation on March 7, Maimoona has been working resiliently in the forefront of the country’s response efforts, even having declared a state of public health emergency nationwide. She is entitled under the Public Health Protection Act to enforce decisions regarding precautionary and restrictive measures to contain the outbreak.

The first community transmission was discovered in the capital, Malé City on April 15 and it provoked a complete lockdown across the entire region and restriction on non-essential travel within inhabited islands.

After over a month, the government began implementing a lockdown ease plan on May 29, in phases. The country is currently in phase two, which allows individuals to go outdoors within a specific period under set protocols.

As of Saturday, the Covid-19 tally sits at 2,150 out of which 1,769 patients have recovered.

The pandemic has taken the lives of eight victims and there are currently five patients hospitalized for treatment.

Out of the total cases, 52% are of Bangladeshi patients, totaling 1,134 and 740 which is 34% of the total, are Maldivians.

Other nationalities having contracted the infection include; 200 Indians, 42 Nepalese, 12 Sri Lankans, 11 Italians, three Pakistani nationals and eight others.