COVID-19 recoveries in Maldives increase to 86

National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has announced that six more individuals have recovered from COVID-19 in the Maldives. 

A total of 12 individuals have recovered from the virus today. Six cases of recoveries have been announced earlier today.

37 new cases of the virus were also announced earlier today bringing the national total to 1,143.

Four have died from complications.

The capital Male’ City remains the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Maldives, contributing to over 1,000 of the total infections.

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

The Maldives 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.

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