Authorities still searching for two missing COVID-19 patients

National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has announced that two migrant workers who are missing after testing positive for COVID-19 have still not been found.

Speaking in tonight’s press conference, NEOC spokesperson Mabrouq Azeez stated that five out of the initial missing seven had been found.

One of the missing individuals was connected to a ventilator at Tree Top Hospital when identified. The individual has now been disconnected from the ventilator after improving conditions.

Mabrouq also added that Police will now be overseeing the security of vulnerable residences of migrant workers. 

Currently, the country has 1106 active cases. The majority of the cases have occurred in the migrant population in Male’ City.

So far more than 560 Bangladeshi nationals have tested positive for the virus in the Maldives. More than 300 locals have also tested positive along with 104 Indian nationals. 

The Greater Male’ Region has been under lockdown and full curfew since April 15, when the capital identified its first infection.

Health authorities project a significant surge in virus cases by the end of May.