The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Saturday, placed Addu Atoll under monitoring upon identifying two COVID-19 cases on Hithadhoo — one of the several islands connected via the Addu Link Road.
According to HPA, the entire atoll was being monitored until authorities concluded the contact tracing process because the two positive cases were not under quarantine.
Prior to this, Hulhumeedhoo, which lies separately from Addu’s stretch of linked islands, recorded a cluster of virus cases. The total number of cases found on these islands now add up to 28.
After a long period of recording low numbers towards the end of 2020, Maldives is now experiencing its third wave of the pandemic, with the introduction of the United Kingdom’s highly contagious virus variant.
Currently, the island nation records a total of 16,656 virus cases of which 2,039 are active cases, in addition to 14,556 recoveries and 54 deaths.
With the sudden spike in numbers, HPA introduced a new curfew, which prohibits civilians from roads and public spaces between 2300 to 0430 hrs, while vehicle movements are banned between 2030 to 0430 hrs.
The restrictions are implemented across capital Male', its suburbs Vilimale' and Hulhumale', airport island Hulhule', industrial island Gulhifalhu and landfill island Thilafushi.
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