COVID-19: Cheval Blanc Randheli Resort in lockdown for testing

A foreigner residing at Cheval Blanc Randheli Resort in Noonu Atoll displaying symptoms suspected to be of COVID-19 is to be tested for the virus.

Health Protection Agency (HPA) has stated that until the result of the person come back; the resort is under HPA monitoring.

The government’s spokesperson Mabrook Azee has said that until Thursday afternoon only two resorts are placed in lockdown.
Other than Randheli Resort, a temporary lockdown is placed in Paradise Island resort. The resort is in lockdown for testing eight Maldivians and two expatriates in the resort.

The infected figure has reached 13 in the Maldives. However, all of them are Foreigners. They are; two people from Anantara Dhigu Resort, five from Kuredhdhu Resort, two from Sandy Bathala Maldives Resort, two from Island Resort and two from Island Safari.

However, during the past two days, none have tested positive even though many were tested for the virus.

The government has asked the Maldivians who come back from overseas to be self-isolated at home for 14 days.

The current policy of the government is to test anyone that displays even slightest symptom of the virus. In that regard, many are being tested. Until to date, 517 samples have been taken for testing, of which 15 samples test results have not come back.

Following the spread to COVID-19 in the Maldives, the government has declared a national public health emergency for 30 in the Maldives.