COVID-19 recoveries of increase to 104

National Emergency Operations Cneter (NEOC) has announced that the total number of recoveries in the country has increased to 104.

Speaking in a press conference tonight NEOC spokesperson Mabrouq Azeez stated that the total number of recoveries was now at 104. This means that 13 people had recovered from the virus.

The total number of virus cases in the country currently stands at 1216. This includes 434 Maldivians, 622 Bangladeshi nationals and 118 Indian nationals. 

Four people have so far passed away due to the virus in the country.

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, in an address to the Maldivian people on Wednesday, said that the government planned on easing restrictive measures once the current period of the lockdown on the capital expires, if the lockdown measures proved to be effective in pushing down virus numbers.

He also warned that easing of restrictive measures did not mean the end of the pandemic or the danger it posed.

The current lockdown period expires on May 28.

Maldives identified its first virus case, in Kuredu resort, on March 7, and has been in a state of public health emergency since March 12.

While virus cases had initially been restricted to resorts and safaris, and later inbound travelers in quarantine facilities, the populous Maldivian capital identified its first virus case on April 15 – prompting a lockdown on the Greater Male’ Region.

Male’ quickly became the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak in Maldives, contributing to over 1,100 of the total virus cases.

Maldives, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, has also imposed a nationwide ban on all non-essential travel, closed schools and government offices, and has ordered a temporary ban on mass gatherings in mosques in an effort to control the spread of the disease.