President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has addressed the nation\nregarding the first positive case of community spread of COVID-19 in Male\u2019\nCity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a very emotional address, the president urged the\npublic to remain calm, be patient and to cooperate fully with the health\nservice professionals while they do their jobs to conduct contact tracing to\neliminate further community spread of COVID-19 in Maldives. President Solih\nstated under the advice of the national Security Council and other attendants,\nMale\u2019 City will be locked down for the 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Solih also stated the public will not face any\nshortage of food in this difficult period as an adequate stock of food and\nmedicine have been arranged prior to this. He reassured the public that the\ngovernment had been well prepared for any COVID-19 situation adding efficient\nmeasures have been previously prepared for such a case. He further added the\ngovernment is implementing all necessary safeguards to minimise community\nspread and protect the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stating the COVID-19 is a chronic and potentially fatal\nillness without any known cure President stated the most important precaution\nwe can take to protect ourselves and our families is by staying home and\nmaintaining social distancing. Speaking about the changes and difficulties the\nsituation will have on daily lives President encouraged the public to help one\nanother during these trying times and to treat each other with the respect and\nkindness taught to us through the Holy tenets of Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has addressed the nation regarding the first positive case of community spread of COVID-19 in Male\u2019 City. In a very emotional address, the president urged the public to remain calm, be patient and to cooperate fully with the health service professionals while they do their jobs to conduct contact tracing to … Continue reading “President urged public to stay home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[87,104,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aonews.mv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}