On Monday, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced that 253 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Maldives, while 75 recovered from the disease.

According to the agency, of the new cases, 147 were from the greater Male’ region, 35 cases from residential islands, 31 cases from operational resorts and 40 cases from industrial islands.

Currently, the island nation records a total of 26,920 virus cases of which 27,874 are active cases, in addition to 25,309 recoveries and 71 deaths.

On March 12, 2020, WHO classified the spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. To date, the new strain of novel coronavirus has infected over 143.5 million people and claimed over 3 million lives around the world. However, out of those infected, more than 122.1 million people have recovered.