Brunei Darussalam performed better in political and security, socio-economic resilience, infrastructure and public health vulnerabilities in the 2019 Global Health Security Index (GHS) study developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit and John Hopkins University which ranks countries based on their preparedness to face a pandemic.
It also scored well in the Rapid Response Pillar with 100% in trade and travel restrictions, immunisation with 98%, access to communications infrastructure (92.3%), laboratory system (66.7%) and commitment to sharing biological data, genetic and specimens (66.7%).
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