Brunei reports one fatality and 70 new cases of Covid

On Wednesday (November 24), Brunei Darussalam recorded 70 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 14,771.

Due to pre-existing health concerns, another Covid-19 patient died.

Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Mohd Isham Jaafar (photo) made the announcement at the daily press briefing on Wednesday.

"The case involved a 64-year-old man who had a number of health issues and was not classified as a Covid-19-related fatality."

"There are 18 additional new cases to seven of the existing active clusters who were previously close contacts with numerous positive cases," Dr Mohd Isham said of the number of illnesses.

A house cluster, a staff housing cluster (Borneo Air Conditioning & Engineering), and a public cluster have all been discovered in the Sultanate (Pasar Pantai Jerudong).

"We're still looking at 26 additional instances to figure out where the illness came from," the minister continued.

Six clusters have been closed due to the lack of new cases for the past 28 days.
Cluster 4524, Cluster 7618, Cluster 8308, Cluster 9076, Cluster 12021, and Cluster 12057 are the names of the clusters.

There are 142 clusters that are currently operational.

Meanwhile, 48 instances were recovered yesterday, increasing the overall number of recovered cases to 14,210, while the active cases totaled 462.

According to the minister, four cases are in Category 5 and are being treated in the intensive care unit, all of which require artificial breathing.
In the meantime, one case is in Category 4 and requires oxygen.

3,872 samples have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number of laboratory tests performed since January 2020 to 596,498.

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