Health Protection Agency HPA has lifted Gaafu Alifu Dhevadhoo from monitoring status after clearing the island for a possible community spread of the COVID-19 illness.
HPA said that it had met all the requirements of Article 12 of the Public Health Protection act and found no reason to keep the island under monitoring.
The Agency had placed the southern island under monitoring earlier this month after a person under quarantine tested positive for COVID-19 and because there were suspicions that the individual had met other people while under quarantine.
This is the second time Dhevadhoo is placed under monitoring this year as health authorities had placed the island under monitoring in January of this year after a major COVID-19 cluster emerged from the island.
This cluster developed after a person under quarantine who had tested positive for COVID-19 was given a false result initially and released from quarantine.
Authorities confirmed 86 COVID-19 from the cluster including 69 from Dhevadhoo alone and other cases from Villigilli and Dhaandhoo of the same Atoll and Laamu Atoll Fonadhoo as well as Hulhumale'.
The COVID-19 situation in the Maldives remains dire with the HPA reporting 118 new cases in the country yesterday.
This includes 95 from the Greater Male' Area, 4 from inhabited islands, and 19 from operational resorts.
The new cases have taken the total cases reported in the island nation to 20,565 with 17,836 recoveries so far.
The pandemic has killed 64 people in the Maldives.
