Covid-19: More than a hundred new cases confirmed Saturday
78 of the 124 new cases reported were from the Male' area, along with 33 cases from inhabited islands and 12 infections from operational resorts
Most of Saturday's new cases, which represent a spike in daily infections, were confirmed from the Greater Male' region
124 new cases of Covid-19 were reported across the Maldives on Saturday, with an additional 122 recoveries confirmed from the infection nationwide.
78 of the 124 new cases reported Saturday were from the Male' area, with 33 additional cases reported from inhabited islands, and 12 new cases from operational resorts.
Health authorities tested a total of 2,503 samples for the infection between Friday and Saturday.
With this, the Maldives total Covid-19 case tally is now 26,145. The active case count had recently topped 3,000, but has since decreased to 2,585. By sundown on Saturday, 53 people remain admitted in hospitals for Covid-19 treatment across the country.
A further 122 recoveries from the infection were reported on Saturday, bringing the total number of recoveries observed for the infection in Maldives up to 23,482.
With several islands placed under monitoring, Covid-19 health and safety restrictions are being strengthened across the Maldives in order to control transmission of the virus. The Health Protection Agency has been steadily easing measures in the Greater Male' region, where the number of new cases being detected had been decreasing prior to Saturday's spike.
As the fasting month of Ramazan is now underway, authorities have been working to control Covid-19 transmissions without initiating a city-wide lockdown. The curfew and vehicle movement restriction order in effect across the nation's capital was also dissolved recently.
However, the state of public health emergency across the country has been extended for another month until 4 May, with authorities most recently having confirmed the 69th death from Covid-19 in Maldives. The two most recent deaths were confirmed on Friday, including which a total of 21 people have died from the infection in Maldives in 2021. With a Covid-19 mortality rate of 0.26 percent, most of those who have passed away after contracting the infection in the island nation are elderly persons.
