Health Protection Agency HPA has reported an additional 2,349 cases of COVID on Saturday in the Maldives.
HPA said that out of these cases, 1,325 were confirmed from the Greater Male Area where the Agency noted that the positivity rate has now reached 36 percent.
HPA further said that it had confirmed 681 new cases from the inhabited islands and 54 new cases from operational resorts in the country. HPA said that it is yet to confirm the location of 289 new cases reported yesterday.
The new cases take the total number of cases reported since March 2020 to a staggering 114,977.
HPA said currently there are 13,035 active cases of the pandemic and that 48 people remained hospitalized for further treatment.
The Agency had also said that 101,660 people have recovered from the illness in the Maldives.
The COVID-19 global pandemic has killed 270 individuals in the Maldives with the latest death coming earlier today from the Hulhumale Medical Facility. HPA had said that a 42-year-old local woman under treatment at the ICU of the facility had passed away due to the illness.
