Maldives lockdown. The maldives 1798680 mexico 1722360 and thailand 1654320 all appear among the top five destinations despite the flight times all lasting around 12 hours. Daterange wednesday 09 sep 2020. Health protection agency hpa said the lockdown initially ordered wednesday for 24 hours and extended thursday for another day will remain in place for the next 14 days.
The maldives also ranks as the most searched destination among those in the uk with more than 98600 average monthly searches for flights and holidays to the region. Maldives government havent officially announced that the country is in lockdown. Local world sports entertainment business lifestyle travel.
The maldives declared a public health emergency over covid 19 on 12 march. As of 19 march 2020 the maldives has 13 positive cases and the lockdown status on vilamendhoo and bathala has been lifted. April 17 2020 a lockdown in maldives capital has been extended for two weeks as coronavirus cases in one of the worlds most densely populated cities rise.
However government authorities have started to conduct drills of a lockdown. Some maldives resorts placed on lockdown with confirmed covid 19 cases the first coronavirus cases have been detected this last march 08th 2020 at kuredu island resort with 2 confirmed cases who came from italy. Maldives has moved to extend restrictions to combat coronavirus until mid may as the number of cases in the island nation reached 250 due to a growing number of infections amongst its neglected migrant worker community.
The maldives is preparing for a full lockdown after several cases of local transmission of covid 19 were identified in capital male. Local world sports entertainment business lifestyle travel maldive islands. Though looking at the covid 19 situations in the maldives no maldivian citizen has tested positive for the virus yet.
A view of kuredu island resort not. Hundreds of british travellers visit the resorts through kuoni each. On 27 march the government announced the first confirmed case of a maldivian citizen with covid 19 and that person is from the uk.
Tourists were on lockdown at a luxury resort in the maldives for five days after at least two staff members at the resort tested positive for the coronavirus. The same day sandies bathala has also confirmed cororanavirus on the island with an italian tourist holidaying at the resort.
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