Eight thousand doses from domestic stocks will be rushed north as PNG infections soar
Australia will start vaccinating Papua New Guinea’s frontline health workers, as well as residents of the “treaty villages” in the coronavirus-stricken Western province along Australia’s northern border.
Eight thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Australia’s domestic stocks will be rushed north next week, as PNG wrestles with a burgeoning infection rate that threatens to overwhelm the country’s already-fragile health system. Hundreds of doctors and nurses have been infected, in some cases because of a lack of protective equipment.
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