BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 23 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei reported one new imported case of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the national tally to 175.
According to Brunei’s Ministry of Health, the case is a 50-year-old man, who arrived in Brunei on Jan 8 from Britain via Kuala Lumpur. He had a sore throat on Wednesday and is currently being monitored and treated at the National Isolation Centre.
Meanwhile, the contact tracing for this case has found that he does not have any close contacts, since he has been quarantined as soon as he arrived in the country.
With the detection of this latest case, there are three active cases being treated at the National Isolation Centre, and all patients are in stable condition.
A total of 34 imported cases have been confirmed, since the last local infection case on May 6, 2020. At present, Brunei recorded 261 days without COVID-19 infections.
Meanwhile, 551 individuals are currently undergoing mandatory self-isolation at monitoring centres provided by the government, who arrived in the country after travelling abroad.
There have been three deaths resulted from COVID-19 in Brunei, and a total of 169 patients recovered.– NNN-ANN
