The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Saturday, confirmed that the tenth case of COVID-19 was a foreign national from Kuredu Island Resort.
The individual that tested positive was among ten people identified during the contact trace conducted after four expatriate workers from the resort were found to have contracted the virus.
HPA stated that the remaining nine individuals tested negative.
Maldives first two cases of COVID-19 were reported from Kuredu Resort on March 7. A further two individuals from the resort tested positive on March 9.
In addition to the five cases reported from Kuredu Resort, two foreign citizens from Sandies Bathala and Kuramathi Maldives each, as well as another individual in Anantara Dhigu Resort were confirmed to have the virus.
Although Kuredu Resort, Sandies Bathala and Kuramathi Maldives were quarantined, HPA lifted travel restrictions this Wednesday.
Several members of the public expressed concern that quarantine measures implemented on the resorts were lifted too early.
But u released Kuredu from Quarantine? How do you people come up with such decisions? https://t.co/45VPl4hBsc
— Usay 🌴 (@usaymat) March 12, 2020
Maldives declared a public health emergency under Section 33 of the 7/2012 Public Health Act, on March 12 for a period of 30 days.
HPA announced the implementation of several additional measures against the COVID-19 outbreak on Saturday. This includes closing down guesthouses and city hotels in Greater Male' for 14 days period and banning tourists holidaying at resorts from visiting any inhabited islands for the same period. Furthermore, all schools and universities in the country were closed for two weeks.
Sign In