COVID-19: Maldives records 15 new cases, active cases fall to 722

Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced 15 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in the Maldives to 13,213.

With the new cases, Maldives has a total of 722 active cases. 

According to HPA, 14 of the new cases were confirmed from the greater Male’ region while one was confirmed from an operational resort. 

Meanwhile, 116 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 12,437.

There are a total of 70 patients in the hospital. 

HPA specified that 1,731 samples were collected for the virus in the last 24 hours.

Health officials have so far collected 257,648 samples for the virus.

Caseload over the week

• December 7: 15 cases
• December 6: 39 cases
• December 5: 16 cases
• December 4: 37 cases
• December 3: 36 cases
• December 2: 21 cases
• December 1: 38 cases

47 COVID-19 patients have died from complications.