COVID-19: 1,015 new cases; 15,818 active cases

Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Monday, announced 1,015 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in Maldives to 160,076.     

According to HPA, the 1,015 new cases include; 182 cases from the greater Male’ region, 728 cases from residential islands outside Male’, and 44 cases from operational resorts. 

Meanwhile, 1,107 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 143,956.    

With the new developments, Maldives now has 15,818 active cases.      

There are 29 patients in hospitals.      

5,042 samples have been tested for COVID-19 over the last 24-hours, including 1,661 samples from the greater Male' region. The positivity rate in the greater Male’ area is at 11 percent. 

With the 1,015 new infections on Monday, 8,163 people have tested positive over the last one-week period.  

February 14: 1,015 cases 

February 13:  1,030 cases 

February 12:  1,128 cases 

February 11:  986 cases 

February 10:  1,406 cases 

February 9: 1,096 cases 

February 8: 1,502 cases 

Maldives has recorded 289 COVID-19 deaths. 

Maldives began its vaccination campaign in February last year. The country expanded the campaign to begin vaccinating children between 12 years and 17 years of age six months later, in August, and began administering the booster dose the same month. 

As of Sunday, 397,956 people have received their first dose and 370,515 people have been fully vaccinated, and 108,670 have received their booster dose.