Overview of Preventive Measures and Good Governance Policies to Mitigate the COVID-19 Outbreak Curve in Brunei

The COVID-19 outbreak has completely devastated the economies of the major countries and disrupted many people’s lives. Despite the huge outbreak and devastation brought by the pandemic, there are a growing number of countries that has been able to control the spread of the outbreak, signifying a strong recovery. Brunei is one of the few countries that has been able to control the outbreak and “flatten the curve”. This paper explores the rate of growth of COVID-19 cases in Brunei and highlights resilient actions that have been taken to mitigate further infection and contain outbreak nationally. The Sultanate of Brunei has taken various timely actions to minimise the risk of further outbreak and implemented serious measures to support any infected patients in the country. Brunei is also one of the few countries in the world to have contained the spread of the infection with no newly infected local cases recorded for nearly 6 months. This paper also takes into account the new COVID-19 cases that were imported cases from returning travellers to Brunei travellers and how the authorities handled these new cases. The current observations in this paper thus serves as a reference for notable policies to contain future pandemics and in order to achieve a sustainable society.