COVID-19: Maldives records 35 new cases

An empty road of Male' City near the Rasfannu beach area is photographed empty as the city undergoes a nation-wide lockdown. The city was placed under curfew due to the first case of COVID-19 from the city testing positive on April 15, 2020. (Sun Photo/Fayaz Moosa)

Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced 35 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in the Maldives to 13,248.

With the new cases, Maldives has a total of 707 active cases.

According to HPA, 31 of the new cases were confirmed from the greater Male’ region while three were confirmed from inhabited islands. A single case was confirmed from an operational resort.

Meanwhile, 50 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 12,487.

There are a total of 69 patients in the hospital.

HPA specified that 1,748 samples were collected for the virus in the last 24 hours.

Health officials have so far collected 259,462 samples for the virus.