Tag: PNG health

By Grace Auka Salmang and Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby Closing down of nursing stations and medical clinics operated by retail pharmacies will see more...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby National Capital District Governor Powes Parkop has announced that there will not be a total lockdown of Port Moresby. He...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital has reached a crisis point as the covid-19 pandemic positivity rate surged drastically...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Goroka, Papua New Guinea The flowers outside the building are in full bloom -- green,...

PNG Post-Courier Half of Papua New Guinea’s parliamentarians are still not vaccinated despite widespread calls from the government, the business community, churches and civil society...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby All 252 people reported to have died in Papua New Guinea from the covid-19 pandemic have been unvaccinated, says...

By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Two deaths with two patients in critical condition is the status at one of Papua New...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's acting Prime Minister Soroi Eoe says the specific lockdown measures planned for the covid-19 spike in...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Papua New Guinean doctor evacuated from Daru in Western Province to Port Moresby last Tuesday has died – the latest...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea's covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days...

By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinean chief executives believe the country's entire workforce needs to be vaccinated against covid-19 to be fully productive, says...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A female nurse in Madang is the first local Papua New Guinean to be tested positive for the highly...

By Godwin Eki in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has been hit with a positive delta variant case of covid-19 for the first time, Deputy...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby As the delta variant of covid-19 spreads to more than 96 countries, Papua New Guinea has put in tighter...

SPECIAL REPORT: RNZ Pacific WARNING: This article contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing. Unexplained deaths spark sorcery claims, torture and murder, as fears...

RNZ Pacific The Papua New Guinea Council of Churches (PNGCC) has declared its support for the covid-19 vaccination rollout, following a conference in Port Moresby. Papua...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist Anti-vax misinformation is throwing a spanner in the works for covid-19 vaccination programmes in Papua New Guinea and Solomon...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape is appealing to people to take the covid-19 vaccine before doses expire. This comes as the number...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The Papua New Guinean government should protect women accused of practicing “sorcery” from violence and hold the attackers to account, says...

RNZ Pacific Ten percent of Papua New Guineans confirmed to have been infected with covid-19 are health workers, while the death toll from the pandemic...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape has defended the adjournment of Parliament for four months, saying this is...