BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Brunei reported 4,220 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, another record daily high, bringing the national tally to 67,762.
As a country of 420,000 people, Brunei saw its daily cases exceeding the 4,000 mark for two straight days, after recording more than 3,000 cases for six straight days since last Tuesday.
The newly recorded cases were all local infections, the country's health ministry said.
The ministry said earlier that the country is going through the third wave of COVID-19 and the number of cases is expected to increase beyond the total reported during the second wave, with the Omicron variant replacing the Delta variant as the dominant variant.
As of Feb. 28, 54.4 percent of Brunei's population have received three doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, while more than 94 percent of Brunei's population have received one dose and two doses, respectively.
The COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, China's Sinopharm are administered in Brunei.
According to the health ministry, two more patients passed away in the past 24 hours, bringing the death tally to 127.
Currently, 31,422 active cases are being treated and monitored in Brunei, where 36,213 recoveries from COVID-19 have been reported. ■