Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced on Sunday that a COVID-19 patient admitted at the ADK Hospital in Male’ City has passed away.
HPA identified the deceased as an 81-year-old Maldivian female.
She passed away at 04:20 pm on Sunday.
“This is the 289th COVID-19 death in the Maldives,” confirmed HPA in a tweet.
It also marks the 12th death so far in February.
The highest COVID-19 deaths in a single month were recorded during the Delta wave in May last year. Maldives recorded 89 deaths in May 2021, including 13 deaths in a single day.
Maldives was hit by a surge in COVID-19 cases last January, fueled by the new and more contagious omicron variant. The numbers have since begun to come down.
Maldives has 159,061 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,030 new cases recorded on Sunday. 142,849 patients have since recovered.
The country currently has 15,910 active cases. 31 of the patients are hospitalized.