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COVID-19: Maldives records 103 new cases, 144 recoveries

Nafaahath Ibrahim
04 April 2021, MVT 09:44
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Nafaahath Ibrahim
04 April 2021, MVT 09:44

The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Saturday, announced that 103 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Maldives while 144 recovered from the disease.

According to the agency, of the new cases, 58 cases were from the greater Male’ region, 24 cases from residential islands, 21 cases from operational resorts.

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 24,651 virus cases of which 3,063 are active cases, in addition to 21,512 recoveries and 67 deaths. To tackle the rising case numbers, HPA introduced a curfew, which prohibits civilians from roads and public spaces between 2300 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.

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 131 million people and claimed over 2.85 million lives around the world. However, out of those infected, more than 105 million people have recovered.

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