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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020
VOL.24 | NO.254
BUSINESS
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business, hospital aid
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Number of cases
Number of deaths
Recovered cases
Brunei Darussalam
COVID-19 STATISTICS
As of 20 April 2020
138
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Twen t y- n i ne peop l e, i nc l ud i ng fou r
Bruneians, who had attended a
Tablighi
Jamaat
congregation in Delhi last month,
were arrested on April 18 for preaching
while visiting on tourist visa and violating
prohibitory orders.
They had been quarantined until April 17,
the
Hindustan Times
reported.
Twenty-six people from eight countries
were remanded to police custody till April 24
by a local court in Ahmednagar on Saturday.
Eight are from Ivory Coast; three from
Tanzania; four each from Indonesia, Brunei
Darussalam and Djibouti; and one each from
Iran, Benin and Ghana.
Meanwhile, the Indian nationals were
remanded to judicial custody before being
released on bail.
They were among the 35 people who
had attended a two-day
Tablighi Jamaat
congregation at its headquarters in Delhi’s
Nizamuddin area. Cases were registered
against them at various police stations
in Ahmednagar.
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Four Bruneians
among 29
arrested in India
A two-metre-long snake was found at the
Immigration and National Registration
Department (INRD) compound yesterday.
A team of ive female Fire and Rescue
personnel led by ASO Hajah Habyah binti
Haji Ya’akub caught the snake. PHOTO: FRD
(Full report on Page 8)
FIREFIGHTERS
CATCH SNAKE
AT INRD
Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji
Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar clariied that
there is no restriction for the public to visit
recreational sites. However, the public must
Visits to recreational sites not prohibited
James Kon
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore reported a
record 1,426 new coronavirus cases yesterday,
mostly among foreign workers, pushing
its total number of conirmed infections
to 7,984.
The tiny city-state now has the highest
number of cases in Southeast Asia, a
massive increase from just 200 infections
on March 15, when its outbreak appeared
to be nearly under control. About 3,000
cases have been reported in just the past
three days.
Low-wage migrant workers, a vital part of
Singapore’s workforce, now account for at
least 60 per cent of its infections.
More than 200,000 workers from
Bangladesh, India and other poorer Asian
countries live in tightly packed dormitories.
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S’pore reports record 1,426 new
COVID-19 cases, total nears 8,000
comply with all the directives and advisories
issued by the government in curbing the
COVID¡19 outbreak, he said during the daily
press conference yesterday.
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