Brunei Logs 3,721 New COVID-19 Cases

Brunei Logs 3,721 New COVID-19 Cases

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Feb 25 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei registered a record 3,721 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total tally to 48,055, according to the health ministry.

With the new infections, Brunei, with a population of 420,000 people, has seen daily COVID-19 cases exceeding the 3,000-mark for three straight days since Tuesday.

The newly recorded cases were all local infections, the health ministry said.

The ministry said earlier that, the country is going through the third wave of COVID-19, with the Omicron variant of the virus replacing Delta as the dominant variant.

As of Feb 23, 52.9 percent of Brunei’s population have received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, while more than 94 percent of Brunei’s population have received one dose and two doses, respectively.

The COVID-19 vaccines used in Brunei are from Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and China’s Sinopharm.

Currently, 24,349 active cases are being treated and monitored in Brunei, which has so far reported 23,593 recoveries.– NNN-ANN

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