Brunei Government gets thumbs up for handling Covid-19, among best record in Asean


A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Feb 13 (Birneo Bulletin/ANN): Respondents from Brunei Darussalam recorded the strongest approval in the government’s general assessment of Covid-19 response and rated it highly with 93.9 per cent, according to a survey by researchers from the Asean Studies Centre at the think-tank ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

The majority of respondents (60.7 per cent) approve of their governments’ handling of Covid-19, with respondents from Vietnam (96.6 per cent), Brunei Darussalam (93.9 per cent) and Singapore (92.4 per cent) giving their governments strong approval ratings in Covid-19 response.

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