Another 100 people have recovered from COVID-19 in the Maldives in the past 24 hours.

Health Protection Agency (HPA) said that from 6 p.m. yesterday to 6 p.m. today, 100 people recovered from COVID-19 raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 90,103 with another 1,726 people still in treatment.

In the same time frame, 25 people tested positive in the Male' area along with 72 from the atolls and 5 from the resorts.

There have been 253 COVID-related deaths in the Maldives that includes 234 locals, 17 foreign nationals. Maldives reported its first COVID-19 related death on 29 April 2020 following the death of an 83-year-old woman