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Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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People exit Hulhumale' Cemetery after a funeral for a COVID-19 victim on June 7, 2021. (Sun Photo/Fayaz Moosa)
A COVID-19 patient admitted at the Hulhumale’ Medical Facility (HMF) has passed away.
Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed the identity of the latest COVID-19 fatality as an 82-year-old Maldivian man. He passed away at 02:23pm this afternoon.
His death increases the number of COVID-19 fatalities in the Maldives to 256.
The last COVID-19 death recorded in the Maldives prior to this was on Monday; a 79-year-old Maldivian man who was being treated at Addu Covid Management Facility.
The last time a COVID-19 death was recorded from HMF was on last Sunday; a 77-year-old Maldivian woman.
Within the last twenty-four hours, HPA has announced 125 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in Maldives to 92,754.
According to HPA, the 125 new cases include; 23cases from the greater Male’ region, 93 cases from residential islands outside Male’, and 7 cases from operational resorts.
Meanwhile, 140 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 90,625.
With the new developments, Maldives now has 1,861 active cases.
There are 16 patients in hospitals.
