Brunei reports 10 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 15,400

According to the Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Md Isham Jaafar, 10 additional Covid-19 cases were added in Brunei on Monday, including seven imported instances, increasing the overall number of cases to 15,412.

The 1,120 laboratory tests done in the last 24 hours resulted in the number of new cases.

As a result, today's positive case rate is 0.9 percent.

There are no cases in Category 4 (requiring oxygen assistance and close monitoring) and one case in Category 5 being treated in the National Isolation Centre (requiring assistance of artificial ventilation and treated at the Intensive Care Unit).

On Monday, 15 cases were recovered, increasing the total number of recovered cases in Brunei Darussalam to 15,113, with 199 active cases.

Meanwhile, 4.3 percent of beds in isolation centres across the country are occupied.

As of Sunday (Dec 19), 94.3 percent of the population had received at least one dose of the vaccination; 92.0 percent had received two doses of the vaccine; and 7.7 percent had received three doses of the vaccine.