President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has today added additional government holidays to the 2020 calendar.

The President's Office revealed that President Solih had added six extra governments holidays for Maldives for the year 2020.

The additional holidays are as follows:

- 2 January 2020

- 27 May 2020

- 28 May 2020

- 28 July 2020

- 29 July 2020

- 12 November 2020

A total of 19 days were included in the calendar as public holidays for the coming year. However with the addition of the new holidays the total now comes to 25.