Brunei has documented almost 5,000 more Covid-19 recoveries

[ASEAN NOW Content Team]

 

On Tuesday night, Brunei logged another 5,413 recovered cases, increasing the total number of recoveries to 89,174.

A total of 2,553 new cases have been discovered, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 116,924.

1,885 of these cases were identified using antigen rapid test (ART) results submitted to the BruHealth app, while 698 were identified through 3,195 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) laboratory tests conducted in the previous 24 hours.

 

At a daily press conference in the capital, Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Mohd Isham Jaafar confirmed this, adding that the overall number of current cases remains at 27,579.

There was only one Covid-19 death.
Two doses of the Covid-19 vaccination were given to the deceased.

Sixteen instances are still in Category 5, while 18 are still in Category 4.
At the National Isolation Centre, the total number of cases in Categories 4 and 5 currently accounts for 9.2% of the treatment capacity (NIC).

With 223 active cases placed in isolation centres and hospitals around the country, the bed occupancy rate at isolation centres is 6%.
A total of 27,356 positive cases are being self-isolated at home.

 

The National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme reported that 58.8% of the population had received the booster shot as of March 14, and that over 94 percent had received at least one dose of the vaccine.

 

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