A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Maldivian flight has arrived with much needed COVID-19 medical supplies imported by Medtech. The cargo flight arrived at Velana International on 17th April 2020 with 5,000 kgs of cargo which consisted of 4,500 kgs of medical supplies. These medical supplies brought by Medtech includes 105 cases of sample carriers, 40 cases of triple packaging boxes […]
Life Support has started the delivery of medicines to households. Life Support has requested its customers to send a picture of the prescription and ID card via WhatsApp and Viber to its number 7799001. They have also stated that they will be taking orders throughout the day. In addition to that, they have revealed that […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created many global logistic challenges and the import of US Dollar cash notes into the country has reduced. The Bank of Maldives will, therefore, be limiting the withdrawal of USD cash at ATMs and branches to USD 2000 per month, per customer with immediate effect. With restrictions in overseas travel, there […]
Director-General of Public Health, Maimoona Aboobakuru, has today (17th April), announced a 14-day lockdown in capital Male’ city. This is due to the 7th confirmed case in Male’. The lockdown was first issued due to the first positive case of COVID-19 in the capital on 15th April. An announcement issued by HPA said no persons […]
To support the government of the Maldives’ Economic Recovery Plan that includes a package of economic relief measures aimed at mitigating the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in light of the anticipated downturn in tourism, OPEC has pledged to grant USD 20 million emergency loan to the Maldives. The OPEC Fund for International […]
State Trading Organization (STO)’s Managing Director Hussain Amru has announced that they are working on establishing a faster delivery service within the capital Male’ city amid the lockdown. In a tweet, Amru said that as per the instructions by HPA and Police, eSTOre had to cease it’s operations yesterday (15th April). However, upon getting the […]
Maldives has confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in the capital city Male’ and with this, the government has declared a 24-hour lockdown in the Greater Male’ area. As the lockdown was declared in less than 24 hours of the first case of the virus in the city, many were not prepared for the lockdown. […]
Bank of Maldives has continued to scale up its investment with the introduction of Self Service Banking ATM Centres in GA. Maamendhoo and GA. Nilandhoo. In addition to the usual cash withdrawal facilities, the new Centres will support individuals and businesses to deposit and transfer money on a 24/7 basis. With these new investments, Gaaf […]
Male’ Water and Sewerage Company (MWSC), has assured that they will not cut the supply of water to any residence in Male’ amid the COVID-19 crisis in the city for any reason, including delay in payment of bills. MWSC Managing Director Hassan Shah has stated that the company has given unofficial instructions to its disconnection […]