The total number of COVID-19 cases has risen to 75,622 after 217 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, 31 people tested positive in the Male' area along with 88 from the atolls and ten people from the resorts.

In the same time frame, 155 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 72,833 with another 2,562 people still in treatment.

There have been 215 COVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 198 locals, 16 foreign nationals. Maldives reported its first COVID-19 related death on 29 April 2020.