James Kon
Brunei Darussalam recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases where 26 were local and nine imported. This brings the cumulative case number to 15,860.
This was shared by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar during a press conference yesterday.
The minister said the new cases were detected via 2,120 laboratory tests conducted in the past 24 hours showing the rate of positive cases of 1.7 per cent.
Sixteen cases recovered yesterday bringing the number of recoveries to 15,409 and total active cases at 349. The bed occupancy rate in isolation centres is 10.3 per cent.
One case is in Category 4 requiring oxygen assistance and under close monitoring while there are no cases in Category 5.
In terms of vaccination, 94.7 per cent of the Sultanate’s population have received one dose, 93.7 per cent with two jabs and 31.9 per cent with three shots.
No violation of movement restriction from 10pm to 4am were detected on Friday.
