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Brunei reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from the United Kingdom.
2021-12-23

Brunei reports a record 381 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 8,980.
2021-10-10

Brunei reports a record 314 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,769.
2021-08-22

Brunei closes all place of worships, all leisure facilities including gyms and sport facilities, postpone social events and bans dine in at restaurants for two weeks after the first local COVID-19 cases in 15 months were reported in the country. All educational institutions also have ordered to return to online learning.
2021-08-8

Brunei suspends a reciprocal green lane arrangement with Singapore until further notice following the worsening situation of the pandemic in the latter country.
2021-05-20

The government announces that it will ease their social distancing measures when Brunei enters a "New Normal" phase on March 8 as the country has reported no community cases in the last 300 days.
2021-03-6

The Singaporean Ministry of Health announces that it would permit the entry of travelers from Brunei and New Zealand, effective September 1, citing the countries' effective responses to pandemic.
2020-08-21

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah announces, via a television broadcast, that he has extended the moratorium on capital punishment for gay sex convictions. No executions have been carried out in Brunei since 1957. There has been overwhelming international backlash against a number of the changes affected by the stricter interpretation of Islamic law published on 3 April 2019. The Sultan also said Brunei will ratify the United Nations Convention against Torture.
2019-05-5

The Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei is one of the youngest and smallest Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdictions in southeast Asia. About 10 percent of the population is atheist, 13 percent Buddhist, and a small number have indigenous beliefs. Christians, half of whom are Catholic, constitute 10 percent of Brunei's population.
2013-11-3

Premier Wen Jiabao travels to the earthquake zone, having postponed a scheduled visit to Brunei, Indonesia and Myanmar. President Hu Jintao calls the Presidents of Chile and Venezuela to postpone trips to those countries.
2010-04-16