Maldives reports its first coronavirus death

Maldives has reported its first death from COVID-19 with the number of positive cases standing at 280.

The victim was an 83-year-old woman from the capital Male.

First cases of COVID-19 were reported at tourist resorts in this Indian Ocean archipelago state and authorities for sometime kept it from spilling over into the community.

There has, however, been a sudden spike in recent days in the number of patients in the capital as well as far off islands with no traceable source of infection.