Maldives Covid-19 tally reaches 14,109

Maldives reported 44 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, which pushes the country’s total case count to 14,109.

The cases are from the over 3,200 samples tested within 24 hours. 24 out of the 44 cases are from the greater Male’ region while 16 are from residential islands and four from operational resorts.

Further, with the 28 additional recoveries reported on Sunday, a total of 13,336 patients have recovered from the virus in the island nation while there have been 49 deaths.

This pushes the country's active coronavirus cases to 717, from Saturday’s 701.

52 patients are hospitalized for treatment and further monitoring, five more than the previous day.

While 44 new cases were announced on Sunday, there were a total of 231 infections reported last week, out of the 16,872 samples tested within the period. The highest daily rise during the week was reported on Friday, which was 52 infections.

Out of the 13,336 cases confirmed in the Maldives, over 62 percent are locals while Bangladeshis, the country’s largest migrant worker population, comes second at 24 percent.

There has been an increase in the number of foreigners testing positive for the infection recently, as tourist arrivals continue to increase in the island nation.

Nearly 100,000 visitors were welcomed in December alone, with over 26,700 arrivals recorded in January already.