Active Covid-19 cases down to only 89 in Brunei

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 4 (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): The number of active Covid-19 cases in the country dropped to 89 yesterday. Seven new cases – four locals and three imported – and 18 recoveries were also recorded.

With the latest cases, the national tally of confirmed cases is 15,506.

This was said by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Mohd Isham Jaafar during a press conference yesterday.

The minister said the new cases were detected as a result of 932 laboratory tests conducted in the past 24 hours showing the rate of positive case of 0.8 per cent.

Eighteen cases recovered yesterday, bringing the number of recoveries in the Sultanate to 15,317 cases.

The bed occupancy rate at isolation centres is 2.3 per cent.

Among the cases being treated at the National Isolation Centre, one in Category 5 is receiving treatment at the intensive care unit, requiring artificial ventilation and an additional heart-lung machine (ECMO). No cases are in Category 4.

For Covid-19 vaccination, 94.5 per cent of Brunei population has received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, 93.3 per cent with two shots and 21.6 per cent three jabs. - Borneo Bulletin/ANN