Brunei now seeing drop in Covid-19 cases, says minister

Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office and Minister of Finance and Economy II Dato Seri Setia Dr Awang Mohd Amin Liew at the press conference in the capital. - Borneo Bulletin/ANN

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 21 (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): Brunei logged 1,465 new Covid-19 cases bringing the nationally tally of confirmed cases to 123,422, Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office and Minister of Finance and Economy II Dato Seri Setia Dr Awang Haji Mohd Amin Liew has announced.

Of the new cases, 1,244 were based on antigen rapid test (ART) results uploaded onto the BruHealth app, while 221 cases were detected from the 1,814 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests conducted over the past 24 hours.