Brunei reported zero cases of COVID-19 on Sunday (8/11) with 148 cases. It marked the 17th consecutive day without a new case of COVID-19 since October 22, when the country recorded one imported case from Kuala Lumpur.
According to the Brunei Health Ministry, they recorded another patient as recovering, bringing the total to 145 patients. There are no active cases currently under treatment at the National Isolation Center.
There are currently 316 individuals who are undergoing compulsory isolation at government surveillance centers because they only arrived in Brunei after traveling from abroad.
Until now, Brunei has only reported three deaths due to COVID-19. According to the Worldometer website, which records COVID-19 data from 218 countries, Brunei is ranked 194th among the countries hit by COVID-19.
The first rank is still occupied by the United States with 10,283,063 cases and a total of 243,737 deaths.
Meanwhile, China, which was the initial source of the COVID-19 outbreak, is currently in 59th position among the countries hit by the new type of coronavirus, with a total of 86,212 cases and a total of 4,634 deaths.
The statistics show that China has more control over the spread of COVID-19 than many countries such as the US, Brazil, India, France, Britain, Italy, France, and Spain. Apart from China, countries praised for dealing with the pandemic were New Zealand and Australia. (Antaranews)