The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Tuesday, announced that 153 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in the Maldives, while 97 recovered from the disease.
According to the agency, 132 of the new cases were detected from the Greater Male’ Region, 13 were identified in inhabited islands, two were from operational resorts and three cases each were reported from liveaboards and islands under development.
After a long period of recording low numbers towards the end of 2020, Maldives is now experiencing its third wave of pandemic, with the introduction of the United Kingdom’s highly contagious virus variant.
Currently, the island nation records a total of 21,819 virus cases of which 2,406 are active cases, in addition to 19,342 recoveries and 64 deaths.
With the sudden spike in numbers, HPA introduced a new curfew, which prohibits civilians from roads and public spaces between 2300 to 0430 hrs, while vehicle movements are banned between 1800 to 0600 hrs.
The restrictions are implemented across capital Male’, its suburbs Vilimale’ and Hulhumale’, airport island Hulhule’, industrial island Gulhifalhu and landfill island Thilafushi.
On March 12, 2020, WHO classified the spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. To date, the new strain of novel coronavirus has infected over 121.2 million people and claimed over 2.6 million lives around the world. However, out of those infected, more than 97.7 million people have recovered.
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