Bangladeshi virus patient that passed away worked at MNDF HQ

National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) has announced that a Bangladeshi national that passed away today after testing positive for COVID-19 was a worker at the Kalhuthuhkalaa Koshi of MNDF. The Kalhuthuhkalaa Koshi is one of the two headquarters in Male' City.

Speaking in a press conference tonight, NEOC medical officer, Dr. Ibrahim Afzal stated that 69 people have been isolated in connection with the patient. He added that the number of contacts was likely to increase during contact tracing efforts.

The Bangladeshi national was taken to the hospital after suffering a tonic-clonic seizure late last night. Unfortunately, the patient passed away today.

Doctors have previously stated that the patient’s death was not as a result of COVID-19 but due to hemorrhagic stroke. However, the death has been classified as a COVID-19 related death in accordance with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, making the patient, only the second death related to COVID-19 reported in the Maldives.

The 33-year old individual suffered a ruptured vessel due to the seizure, according to IGMH doctors. The man had been tested for COVID-19 as part of IGMH’s new protocol for all hospitalized patients in light of the community spread in Male’.

The doctor also stated that no signs of infection had been found on his lungs and that he had not presented any other symptoms consistent with the disease either.

Maldives has so far confirmed 573 cases of COVID-19, with two deaths and 20 recoveries.