COVID-19: 125 new cases, 5,204 vaccinations

Health Protection Agency (HPA), has announced 125 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in the Maldives to 17,953. With the new cases, the Maldives currently has 2,328 active cases.

According to HPA, the new cases include; 104 cases from the greater Male’ region, 14 cases from residential islands outside Male’, and six cases from operational resorts, one case and from an industrial island.

The confirmed new cases are from 4,889 samples collected.

Meanwhile, 112 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 15,560.

There are 190 patients in hospitals. 

466,545 samples (including repeated samples) have been tested for COVID-19 to date.

Caseload over the week

• February 15: 125 cases
• February 14: 120 cases
• February 13: 209 cases
• February 12: 120 cases
• February 11: 186 cases
• February 10: 100 cases
• February 9: 192 cases

58 patients have died from complications.

VACCINE DRIVE

The Maldives began mass vaccinations against COVID-19 on February 1. HPA stated that 5,204 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours. Of the 5,204 people, 3,967 were from the greater Male’ region, 1,237 were from other atolls.

A total of 43,817 people have now been inoculated under the program; 35,289 from the greater Male’ region and 8,429 from other atolls.

The Maldives received a donation of 100,000 doses of the Covishield developed AstraZeneca and Oxford in January and has ordered 700,000 more doses of the same vaccine – which is expected to be received in March. The Maldives has also received 10,000 doses of Sinopharm, a Chinese developed vaccine as a donation, and China has pledged to donate a further 100,000 doses of the same vaccine in the near future. The Maldives also expects to receive the first shipment of vaccines from World Health Organization (WHO) this February.