BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Aug. 7 (Xinhua): Brunei reported eight new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including seven local infections and one imported case, bringing the national tally to 347.
According to Brunei's Ministry of Health, five of the seven local cases have been related to a monitoring center in Brunei, forming a new cluster. These cases had no history of traveling abroad in recent months.
The remaining two local cases have unidentified origins of infection with mild signs of infections but no overseas traveling history.
Meanwhile, the imported case is a 37-year-old man who arrived in the country on July 30 from the Middle East via Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The health ministry said that contact tracing for all of these new cases is still actively running.
There are currently 52 active cases being treated and monitored at the National Isolation Centre.
Before the detection of these local cases on Saturday (Aug 7), Brunei has kept a record of 457 days without community infections since May 6, 2020.
There have been a total of 292 recovered patients and three deaths reported from Covid-19 so far in the country. - Xinhua
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