Maldives, on Thursday, recorded the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases confirmed per capita in the entire globe.

According to statistics by the scientific online publication Our World in Data, the island nation recorded a daily average of 271.42 cases per million people on August 6.

Graphs depicting the number of COVID-19 cases in Maldives show a sharp linear increase during the past ten days, with the number of daily cases multiplying by fivefold, spiking from 54.71 virus infections per million people.

This is an astounding increase of the 2.59 cases per million people recorded on March 15, a few days after the country first recorded the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases per capita indicates an alarming community spread in the country, with recovery numbers slipping in stark contrast to newly identified cases. The recent spike reduced the total amount of recovered patients from the peak 86 to 58 percent.

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