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COVID-19: Monitoring status lifted from Narudhoo island

Narudhoo island has been reinstated to normalcy 35 days after the island was placed under the Health Protection Agency (HPA)'s monitoring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Narudhoo island was put under monitoring status after an island resident tested positive for COVID-19. The man, a captain of local boat 'Amaaz' had traveled to Male' city where the first local transmission case of COVID-19 was identified, and departed from the city a day before the city was placed on lockdown. Six members of his family also tested positive for the virus.