{"id":166437,"date":"2022-03-02T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T04:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=166437"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:07:52","slug":"bruneis-daily-covid-19-cases-top-4000-for-two-consecutive-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=166437","title":{"rendered":"Brunei&#8217;s Daily COVID-19 Cases Top 4,000 For Two Consecutive Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Mar 2 (NNN-ANN) &#8211; Brunei reported 4,220 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, another record daily high, bringing the national tally to 67,762.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a country of 420,000 people, Brunei saw its daily cases exceeding the 4,000 mark for two straight days, after recording more than 3,000 cases for six straight days, since last Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly recorded cases were all local infections, the country&#8217;s health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said, the country is going through the third wave of COVID-19 and the number of cases is expected to increase beyond the total reported, during the second wave, with the Omicron variant replacing the Delta variant as the dominant variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Feb 28, 54.4 percent of Brunei&#8217;s population have received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 94 percent have received one and two doses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, China&#8217;s Sinopharm are administered in Brunei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the health ministry, two more patients passed away in the past 24 hours, bringing the death tally to 127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, 31,422 active cases are being treated and monitored in Brunei, where 36,213 recoveries have been reported.&#8211; NNN-ANN <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Mar 2 (NNN-ANN) &#8211; Brunei reported 4,220 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, another record daily high, bringing the national tally to 67,762. As a country of 420,000 people, Brunei saw its daily cases exceeding the 4,000 mark for two straight days, after recording more than 3,000 cases for six straight days, since last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":166453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166441,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166437\/revisions\/166441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}