Brunei ushers in month-long fasting of Ramadan with new COVID-19 infections on decline

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Brunei ushers in month-long fasting of Ramadan with new COVID-19 infections on decline

STORY: Brunei ushers in month-long fasting of Ramadan with new COVID-19 infections on decline DATELINE: April 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: Bandar Seri Begawan CATEGORY: HEALTH/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people buying food in Brunei STORYLINE: Muslims in Brunei observed the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday as the country has recorded less than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for 11 consecutive days. The daily period of fasting starts at the breaking of dawn and ends at the setting of the sun. Twelve cannon shots were fired at Taman Haji Sir Muda Omar Ali Saifuddien in the capital, which unveiled the fasting month. Unlike the practice of closing all Ramadan markets due to the pandemic in 2020, as Brunei has announced entering the COVID-19 endemic period, the country resumed last year's Ramadan markets in several locations across the country, with vendors offering Malay-style cakes, barbecue, drinks and other Muslim delicacies, attracting a large number of people to the mark

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