Covid-19 daily infections continue to increase

Out of the 2,768 samples tested between 6pm Monday and 6pm Tuesday, 59 samples have come back positive for the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Nightly statistics publicized by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) revealed that a majority of the cases was reported from the greater Malé region. As such, 33 new infections discovered from the country’s capital city has pushed the total number of active cases in the Covid-19 epicenter to 505.

With 20 new infections detected in residential islands, the total number of active cases in islands has risen to 74.

Further, six new cases were also confirmed from operational resorts, where there are currently 158 active coronavirus infections.

23 active cases are on liveaboard vessels, 13 in islands under development and three in industrial islands, all of which make up the total of 760 active coronavirus cases in Maldives.

Tuesday’s cases have pushed the country’s Covid-19 tally to 14,218.

In addition, the public health authority also revealed that 37 Covid-19 patients had recovered from the infection over the past 24 hours, meaning that the total number of recoveries observed in the Maldives has reached 13,402.

Over the past 24 hours, one Covid-19 patient was discharged from the hospital, with which there are 53 patients currently hospitalized for treatment.

This is the second consecutive day where daily cases have been at or over 50; 50 new cases were reported by sundown on Monday while 44 infections were announced the previous day.

While the pandemic has claimed 49 lives in the island nation thus far, RaajjeMV understands that Maldives will receive Covid-19 vaccination by the end of the ongoing month.

Although public health authorities were successful in containing the second coronavirus peak which faced the island nation since the third phase of lockdown easing was implemented last July, without introducing a second lockdown, Covid-19 numbers have begun spiraling of recent.