BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Mar 4 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei reported 4,885 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, a new daily record high, bringing the total tally to 76,534.
As a country of 420,000 people, Brunei saw its daily cases exceeding the 4,000 mark on Monday, after recording more than 3,000 cases for six straight days since last Tuesday, marking the latest in a series of record-breaking days for COVID-19 infections in the country.
The newly reported cases were all local infections, said the health ministry.
The ministry said earlier that, the country is going through its third wave of COVID-19, and the number of cases is expected to increase beyond the total registered during the second wave, with the Omicron variant of the virus replacing the Delta variant as the dominant variant.
As of Mar 2, 55.3 percent of Brunei’s population have received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, while more than 94 percent have taken at least one shot.
The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and China’s Sinopharm are administered in Brunei.
According to the health ministry, six more patients died in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 135.
Currently, 35,617 active cases are being treated and monitored in Brunei, where 40,782 recoveries have been reported.– NNN-ANN
