Health Protection Agency HPA says there are currently 15 children under treatment for COVID-19 in the Maldives.
The HPA Dashboard on the global pandemic shows that a total of 153 children below the age of 18 have contracted COVID-19 in the country. It shows that 138 children have recovered and only 15 remained under treatment for the highly contagious illness.
This includes 9 children below the age of 10 and 6 children above 10 years.
The 15 children currently under treatment for the illness include 10 girls and 5 boys.
The dashboard also shows that the 138 children who have recovered include 64 girls and 74 boys.
Earlier this month schools in islands with no reported cases of COVID-19 resumed sessions for grades 1 and above while in the Greater Male’ Area only students of grades 9-12 are attending 4-hour sessions at schools.
