COVID-19: 93 new cases; 1,972 active cases

Health Protection Agency (HPA), on Sunday, announced 93 additional cases of COVID-19, increasing confirmed cases in Maldives to 93,957.      

According to HPA, the 93 new cases include; 28 cases from the greater Male’ region, 49 cases from residential islands outside Male’, and 16 cases from operational resorts. 

Meanwhile, 140 additional COVID-19 patients were confirmed to have made full recoveries over the last 24 hours, increasing total recoveries to 91,713.    

With the new developments, Maldives now has 1,972 active cases.      

There are 14 patients in hospitals.      

4,540 samples have been tested for COVID-19 over the last 24-hours, including 1,426 samples from the greater Male' region. The positivity rate in the greater Male’ area is at 2 percent. 

With the 93 new infections on Sunday, 838 people have tested positive over the last one-week period.  

December 19: 93 cases 

December 18: 131 cases 

December 17: 104 cases 

December 16: 97 cases 

December 15: 162 cases 

December 14: 124 cases 

December 13: 127 cases 

Maldives has recorded 259 COVID-19 deaths.