Public Health Consultant Dr. Sheena Moosa says the country can resume its pre-COVID-19 lives once health experts develop a vaccine that fights the pandemic.
Speaking at the latest press conference held by the Health Emergency Operations Center HEOC, Dr. Sheena said that even if authorities and individuals continue taking measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, they can only back to how things were before COVID once a vaccine is developed for the pandemic that has claimed 34 lives here in the Maldives.
She said that it is too soon to ease or lift the restrictive measures currently in place to deter the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Dr. Sheena urged that even if the restrictive measures are lifted, individuals must keep on practicing the new normal until a vaccine is developed.
The Public Health Consultant also said that the current restrictive measures can only be eased or lifted in two to three weeks’ time and that this two to three weeks’ time is counted as the incubation period.
Dr. Sheena also said that if the country is able to control the spread of the pandemic even further than the rate of the spread would also reduce.
Health Protection Agency HPA had reported 54 new cases of COVID-19 in the Maldives yesterday as the daily cases continued to drop in the Maldives following strict restrictive measures undertaken by the authorities.
This includes imposing a vehicular ban in the capital Male’ Area from 8 pm to 5 am every night and only implementing a 7-hour curfew in the capital from 10 pm to 5 am every day.
