Samples collected for Covid-19 testing
Health Protection Agency
Daily Covid-19 infections reported from the Maldives has been above 50 for most of the ongoing month.
69 new cases were reported on Monday, while 51 infections were confirmed on Sunday as well as 87 on Saturday; the latter is the highest daily rise in infections, in months.
Out of the 69 cases, confirmed from the 3,330 samples tested within 24 hours, 35 are from the greater Male’ region while eight are from residential islands. The remaining 26 cases were confirmed from resorts; there has recently been an increase in cases confirmed from resorts.
Monday’s cases have pushed the country’s Covid-19 case count to 14,582, while the additional 26 recoveries bring total recoveries to 13,566.
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COVID-19: Maldives records 59 new cases, 36 recoveries
Shahudha Mohamed
Tourists arriving at Velana International Airport. PHOTO: MIHAARU
Shahudha Mohamed
13 January 2021, MVT 22:13
The Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Wednesday, announced that a further 59 individuals tested positive for COVID-19 while 36 persons were reported as recovered.
According to the agency, 17 of the cases were identified from the Greater Male Region, while nine cases were identified in inhabited islands and the remaining 33 cases were found in operational resorts.
Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC) confirmed that 27 of the Wednesday’s cases tested positive from Oblu Select Sangeli resort.
According to HEOC, the first positive case found at the resort, on January 3, was a foreign staff who underwent a PCR test to travel abroad. Four more staff tested positive on January 11 after exhibiting symptoms, but they were not in contact with the aforementioned case.
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