Health Protection Agency (HPA) has reported 224 new cases of Covid-19 today.

The total number of Covid-19 cases is now 70,897 after another 224 people test positive for the illness today.

Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that from 6 p.m. yesterday to 6 p.m. today, 224 people have tested positive including 111 people in Male' area and 105 from the atolls. HPA did not clarify numbers in terms of locals and foreigners.

In the same time frame, 772 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 62,533 with another 8,155 people still in treatment.

So far, there have been 198 caCOVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 183 locals, 15 foreign nationals.