Health Protection Agency (HPA) on Sunday confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 in Maldives.
According to the agency, the new cases include four Bangladeshi citizens and one Indian national.
✳️ COVID-19 Case Updates
— Health Protection Agency (@HPA_MV) May 17, 2020
As of 08:30pm:
Confirmed an additional 05 cases of COVID-19 infection in Maldives.
Cases:
- 04 Bangladeshis
- 01 Sri Lankan
Total number of cases: 1,083
With this development, Maldives currently records 1,083 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,020 active cases and four fatalities.
Maldivian authorities on Saturday confirmed that nine patients recovered from COVID-19, recording a total of 59 recoveries in the country till date.
Maldives' capital Malé, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, has recorded a significant increase in COVID-19 since recording its first local transmission of the virus on April 15, involving a Maldivian woman who 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, three more individuals, a 33-year-old Bangladeshi man, and two local men, an 80-year-old and an 88-year-old has succumbed to COVID-19.
WHO has classified the spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The new strain of novel coronavirus has infected over 4.75 million people and claimed over 313,900 lives around the world. However, out of those infected, 1.83 million people have recovered.
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