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Media Conference on Latest COVID-19 Situation
August 30th, 2022 | 09:26 AM | 364 views
BERAKAS
In the past one week, the number of COVID-19 cases reported in Brunei Darussalam was at an average rate of about 205 cases per day compared to 283 cases per day the week before. A total of 57,905 ART results were uploaded to the BruHealth application within one week of which 2.4 percent were positive. This was stated by Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Doctor Awang Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar, Minister of Health at a media conference on the latest COVID-19 situation at Dewan Al-Afiah, Ministry of Health, 29th August afternoon.
One case is in Category 5 requiring treatment in the Intensive Care Unit while 3 cases are in Category 4 which requires oxygen assistance and are under close monitoring. The rate of vaccination coverage of COVID-19 in Brunei Darussalam remains at a high level with 77.1 percent of all citizens and residents of this country having received the third dose of the vaccine and 9.4 percent also having received the fourth dose. 178 new cases have been reported, of which 177 cases are the result of ART tests and 1 case was from the result of 171 RT-PCR laboratory tests.
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