Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced on Sunday that 45 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded.
With this, the total number of cases recorded in Maldives increased to 835.
Among the new cases are 22 Bangladeshis, 20 Maldivians, one Indian and two Nepalese.
Presently Maldives records 835 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 803 active cases and 3 deaths.
Maldives’ capital Malé, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, has recorded a significant increase in COVID-19 since it recorded its first local transmission of the virus on April 15, involving a Maldivian woman that sought assistance from a flu clinic in Malé after developing symptoms for the virus.
The country recorded its first COVID-19 related death, of an 83-year-old local female, on April 29. Since, two more individuals, a 33-year-old Bangladeshi man and a local 80-year-old man have succumbed to COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The new strain of novel coronavirus has infected over 4.1 million people and claimed over 280,986 lives around the world. However, out of those infected, 1.45 million people have recovered.
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