Maldives’ Health Protection Agency recorded the COVID-19 related death of a third Bangladeshi on Monday, reported Maldives’ The Edition.
A 54-year-old man, the latest COVID-19 Bangladesh victim, admitted at Tree Top Hospital, died at 02:30pm. The authorities were yet to disclose further details of the victim, the Maldivian news portal said.
The COVID-19 related third Bangladeshi’s death reported in Maldives on Tuesday was the small island nation’s sixth.
Maldives’s second COVID-19 death involved the passing of a 33-year-old male Bangladeshi national, following a tonic-clonic seizure, who afterwards tested positive for the deadly viral disease.
And the fifth was a 46-year-old Bangladeshi male found unconscious on a street in capital Male' and declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
Early Tuesday, less than a day after the country recorded its sixth death, Maldives recorded the seventh COVID-19 related fatality. The victim was a 89-year-old local woman.
Monday’s death came a week after authorities confirmed the fifth fatality related to the coronavirus in the country.
Until Tuesday, Maldives has recorded total confirmed 1,829 and 1,334 active cases of COVID-19, with 488 recoveries.
The country registered its first virus death, of an 83-year-old local female, on April 29.
The virus outbreak in Maldives’ capital city has recorded a significant increase in COVID-19 cases following the first confirmed local transmission on April 15.
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the Maldives' large expatriate population, the majority of whom are Bangladeshi nationals and live in highly congested quarters where it is impossible to reduce contact or exercise social distancing.
