Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced on Twitter today that a second person have been confirmed for COVID-19 in Male’ City today taking the total confirmed cases in the capital to seven.

HPA said that while the person is being transferred to Isolation, it is unclear whom the person had contact with to get ill.

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Maldivian capital was reported on Wednesday morning; Case no. 21, a woman and her son of a very young age, too, was confirmed for the illness on the same day.

Since then, a third person who was in contact with them have tested positive along with three others who were in contact with the third person. So far, 26 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Maldives; two cases were confirmed after they left the country. Currently there are eight people in treatment in the Maldives.

After the community spread, the Maldivian capital was put under lock down for 24 hours on Wednesday and was extended by another 24 hours yesterday.

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