COVID-19: 120 new infections, 1,902 vaccinations

Health Protection Agency (HPA), has announced 120 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in the Maldives to 17,507. With the new cases, the Maldives currently has 2,302 active cases.

According to HPA, the new cases include; 99 cases from the greater Male’ region, eight cases from residential islands outside Male’, and 10 cases from operational resorts as well as three from liveaboards.

The confirmed new cases are from 2,751 samples collected.

Meanwhile, 61 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 15,142.

There are 206 patients in hospitals. 

453,895 samples (including repeated samples) have been tested for COVID-19 to date.

Caseload over the week

• February 12: 120 cases
• February 11: 186 cases
• February 10: 100 cases
• February 9: 192 cases
• February 8: 126 cases
• February 7: 127 cases
• February 6: 109 cases.

56 patients have died from complications.

VACCINE DRIVE

The Maldives began mass vaccinations against COVID-19 on February 1.  HPA stated that 1,902 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours. Of the 1,902 people, 1,496 were from the greater Male’ region while 406 were from the atolls.

A total of 27,367 people have now been inoculated under the program; 22,456 from the greater Male’ region and 4,911 from the atolls.

The Maldives received a donation of 100,000 doses of the Covishield developed AstraZeneca and Oxford in January and has ordered 700,000 more doses of the same vaccine – which is expected to be received in March. The Maldives has also received 10,000 doses of Sinopharm, a Chinese developed vaccine as a donation, and China has pledged to donate a further 100,000 doses of the same vaccine in the near future. The Maldives also expects to receive the first shipment of vaccines from World Health Organization (WHO) this February.