The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has risen to 71,489 after 142 people have tested positive in the past 24 hours.

Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that from 6 p.m. yesterday to 6 p.m. today, 51 people tested positive in the Male' area along with 88 from the atolls, two people from the resorts and one person from a safari yacht.

In the same time frame, 964 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 65,178 with another 6.106 people still in treatment. There are 53people being treated at hospitals.

There have been 203 COVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 188 locals, 15 foreign nationals. Maldives reported its first COVID-19 related death on 29 April 2020.