Izah Azahari & Rokiah Mahmud With the high vaccination rate and natural immunity in the Sultanate, it is now time to lift the mandate of mask wearing as it is each individual’s responsibility to monitor their own health in keeping COVID-19 infections at bay. This was said by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr […]
Lyna Mohamad Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has overtaken cancer as the leading cause of overall and premature deaths in Brunei Darussalam, with last year’s statistics suggesting that CVDs were behind 416 deaths, compared to 306 deaths from cancers. Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar highlighted this in his opening […]
James Kon The importance of developing and maintaining effective capacity and systems in preventing, detecting and responding to public health emergencies was underscored by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar at the 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Health and the Economy held in Bangkok, Thailand from August […]
James Kon The Brunei populace logged in one billion steps in just eight days, three hours and 41 minutes during the 1 Billion Steps Together campaign with participation from over 43,000 people. This milestone was achieved in a much shorter time than the initial expectation of one month. These comments were made by Minister of […]
James Kon Brunei Darussalam’s new daily COVID-19 cases continued to decline to 420 cases per day in the past week from an average of 578 cases per day, the previous week. Some 62,348 antigen rapid test (ART) results were uploaded to BruHealth within the week and 4.7 per cent were positive. These details were revealed […]