The Ministry of Health also shared 21 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, taking the total cases to 15,132.

There are 14 additional new cases to 4 of the existing active cluster who are close contacts with several positive cases. Meanwhile, no new cluster was detected. Three clusters were closed following no new detected cases for 28 days, namely 10910, 13181 and Ban 5 Construction staff house. 7 new cases are still being investigated to determine the source of infection.

41 cases have recovered, taking the total recovered cases to 14,606, with 426 cases remaining active. One case is in Category 5 is being treated at the Intensive Care Unit which require assistance of artificial ventilation and additional heart/lung machine, ECMO. Meanwhile, one case in Category 4 requires oxygen assistance and is under close monitoring. In the past 24 hours, 4,348 samples have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus which brings the total number of lab tests carried out since January 2020 to 627,848.

Source: Radio Television Brunei