COVID-19: 128 new cases, active cases at 2,491

Health Protection Agency (HPA), has announced 128 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in the Maldives to 22,790.

According to HPA, the new cases include; 91 cases from the greater Male’ region, 11 cases from residential islands outside Male’, and 26 cases from operational resorts.

Meanwhile, 82 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 20,226.

With the new developments, Maldives now has 2,491 active cases.

There are 102 patients in hospitals.

4,336 samples (including repeated samples) have been tested for COVID-19 over the last 24-hours.

Caseload over the week

• March 23: 128 cases
• March 22: 149 cases
• March 21: 140 cases
• March 20: 81 cases
• March 19: 145 cases
• March 18: 186 cases
• March 17: 142 cases

66 COVID-19 patients have died from complications.

VACCINE DRIVE

HPA stated that 2,202 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours. 1,451 were from the greater Male’ region, and 751 were from other atolls.

A total of 222,970 people have now been inoculated under the program; 124,678 from the greater Male’ region, and 98,292 from other atolls.