(UTV | MALDIVES) – Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday.
The president said he was in home isolation. President Solih’s wife Fazna Ahmed had tested positive for COVID-19 in April last year. The president is fully vaccinated, reports said.
Solih had undergone a PCR test earlier. The president was set to travel on a poll campaign for an upcoming by-election.
The Maldives was one of the first countries to reopen its international borders to tourists in July 2020 even as several nations were in lockdown while battling the coronavirus wave.