Tag: PNG covid crisis
NZ sends medical team to PNG as covid-19 overwhelms health system
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand medical and logistics support team with essential supplies to assist Papua New Guinea with its covid-19 crisis has departed New...
‘Work together’ plea by Bougainville leader over covid-19 surge
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has urged his people not to take a surge in covid-19 positive cases lightly, reports the PNG...
Just 1.7% of people in PNG are vaccinated against covid. Why...
ANALYSIS: By Fraser Macdonald, University of Waikato
Only 1.7 percent of Papua New Guineans have been fully vaccinated against covid-19. This has been a cause...
Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in...
By Charles Moi in Port Moresby
Employees of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) have challenged the legality of the “no jab, no job” policy...
Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics
By Carmella Gware in Lae
Urban clinics in Papua New Guinea's second city Lae have closed for an indefinite period following attacks on health workers.
Anti-vaxxers...
PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake...
By Marysilla Kellerton in Port Moresby
Demonstrators gathered in Port Moresby yesterday for a march to Parliament in protest over the covid-19 vaccines, which they...
