Maldives Police Service (MPS) has launched a search for a Bangladeshi national who fled from quarantine.

Police revealed that the Ministry of Economic Development had filed the report after a Bangladeshi national fled from a quarantine facility.

The authorities are locating Bahadur, native to Bangladesh (Passport number BP0762231).

Individuals have been sought to contact the Hulhumalé Investigation Department through 9980062 if any information regarding the Bangladeshi national, is acquired.

Authorities have been launching such searches for expatriate workers after they went into hiding or fled from quarantine facilities, on a number of occasions previously as well.

This comes at a time a number of Bangladeshi nationals have been testing positive for the Covid-19 of recent. The majority of the Covid-19 cases discovered in the Maldives are of Bangladeshi nationals who are forced to reside in confined living spaces in poor conditions.

Authorities have since begun work to transfer them to better facilities, and are also working with the Bangladeshi government to repatriate a number of them, stranded in the Maldives.

About 65,000 of the 200,000 expatriate workers residing in the Maldives are undocumented workers without valid passports and travel documents.