The total number of active COVID-19 cases is on a sharp rise as HPA reports over 1,000 new cases for the second day in a row.

The total number of Covid-19 cases is now 37,019 after another 1,204 people test positive for the illness today.

Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that from 6 p.m. yesterday to 6 p.m. today, 1,204 people have tested positive including 961 people in Male' area and 08 from the resorts. HPA did not clarify numbers in terms of locals and foreigners.

In the same time frame, 248 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 26,547 with another 10,376 people still in treatment.

So far, there have been 87 COVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 74 locals, 11 foreign nationals.