The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 75,071 after 78 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, 28 people tested positive in the Male' area along with 34 from the atolls and ten people from the resorts.

In the same time frame, 231 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 72,349 with another 2,496 people still in treatment.

There have been 214 COVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 197 locals, 16 foreign nationals. Maldives reported its first COVID-19 related death on 29 April 2020.