A 10th Covid-19 patient has passed away.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that a 92-year-old Maldivian man succumbed to the virus at 11:54pm on Wednesday. He had been on ventilation.
This is the fifth death of a Maldivian to Covid-19; four Bangladeshi nationals and one Filipino have passed away as well.
The 43-year-old Filipino man died earlier this week.