A 77-year-old woman has died from COVID-19 in the Maldives.
Sources have confirmed that the local woman had died while under treatment for the illness and that the woman had now been buried.
Health Protection Agency HPA is yet to confirm the woman's death but her death now takes the pandemic death toll in the country to 75.
The 75 people who have been killed in the global pandemic include 66 locals and 9 foreigners.
The Maldives is currently fighting a new and a more serious wave of the COVID-19 pandemic after the HPA posted record-breaking daily case numbers for the 4th day straight on Wednesday.
Yesterday, HPA had said that a total of 734 people had tested positive for COVID-19 in the country and that this includes 540 people from the Greater Male' Area.
The sudden rise in cases has promoted authorities to ramp up their measures against the pandemic and HPA had last night imposed a curfew in the Greater Male' Area starting today.
HPA said that the curfew would be imposed between 09:00 pm to 04:00 am in the Greater Male' Area of Male', Hulhumale', and Villimale'.
Schools and government offices in the area have also been closed to further curb the spread of the pandemic and non-essential travel between the islands have been banned for the next 10 days.
