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5 New Cases, 28 Cases Recovered

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5 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, taking the total cases to 15,348. Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Doctor Haji Awang Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar, Minister of Health stated the matter at a media conference on the latest COVID-19 situation in Brunei Darussalam yesterday afternoon. Joining the media conference at Dewan Al-Afiah, Ministry of Health were Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Doctor Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong, Minister of Home Affairs and Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Doctor Awang Haji Mohd Amin Liew bin Abdullah, Minister at the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister of Finance and Economy.

There are 4 additional new cases to 1 of the existing active cluster who were previously close contacts with several positive cases. There is no new cluster detected. 2 clusters have been closed following no new detected cases for 28 days, namely 12977 Cluster and Massutera Engineering Sdn Bhd Cluster. Therefore, the current total active clusters are 99 clusters. One new case is still being investigated to determine the source of the infection.

28 cases have recovered, bringing the total recovered cases to 14,973, while the total active cases are 275 cases. 1 case is in Category 5 who is currently being treated at the Intensive Care Unit and requires assistance of artificial ventilation and additional heart/lung machine, ECMO. In the past 24 hours, 2,148 samples have been tested for the SARS-Co-V-2 virus, taking the total laboratory tests conducted since January 2020 to 664,027 tests.

Source: Radio Television Brunei