COVID death toll rises to 289; 12th in February

Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced on Sunday that a COVID-19 patient admitted at the ADK Hospital in Male’ City has passed away.        

HPA identified the deceased as an 81-year-old Maldivian female.        

She passed away at 04:20 pm on Sunday. 

“This is the 289th COVID-19 death in the Maldives,” confirmed HPA in a tweet.       

It also marks the 12th death so far in February. 

The highest COVID-19 deaths in a single month were recorded during the Delta wave in May last year. Maldives recorded 89 deaths in May 2021, including 13 deaths in a single day. 

Maldives was hit by a surge in COVID-19 cases last January, fueled by the new and more contagious omicron variant. The numbers have since begun to come down. 

Maldives has 159,061 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,030 new cases recorded on Sunday. 142,849 patients have since recovered.            

The country currently has 15,910 active cases. 31 of the patients are hospitalized.