Bangladeshi COVID-19 patient hospitalized following seizure passes away

The Bangladeshi national who was transferred from Senahiya Hospital to Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) following a tonic-clonic seizure has succumbed to his illness and passed away.

The patient, a 33-year-old male, had been transferred to IGMH on Monday evening, and had tested positive for COVID-19 - following testing done on him as part of IGMH's protocol for all hospitalized patients.

HPA had announced earlier that the patient was in critical condition.

Sun has been informed the patient suffered a ruptured aneurysm and passed away while under treatment at the hospital on Tuesday morning.

It marks the second virus-related death in Maldives, following the death of an 83-year-old Maldivian woman in Male’ on Wednesday, April 29.

 HPA officials are scheduled to appear on a National Emergency Operations Center press briefing at 2:30 pm this Thursday. Its expected that details regarding the death will be released then.

557 people have been confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 so far, most of who are Bangladeshi workers in Male'.