Contact tracing will focus more on primary contacts, high-risk contacts and other vulnerable groups where these close contacts are required to report their health status through the Self-Assessment Tool in the BruHealth app.

Quarantine period for close contacts has been updated to 5 days, where they are required to undergo ART testing on the first and fifth day, and are only allowed to complete the quarantine if both ART tests are negative. Close contacts can use their own ART kit, but those who require an ART kit can call Talian Darussalam 123.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Office will also issue a Guideline for civil servants who have been given a Red Code in the BruHealth app in the near future. Therefore, other contacts such as secondary contacts are no longer required to undergo quarantine and are advised to monitor their own health status and conduct ART tests if they start to show symptoms of the infection.

Source: Radio Television Brunei