The emerging Covid crisis in Papua New Guinea

News bulletins all weekend featured stories about an emerging Covid crisis in Papua New Guinea. We’re told hospitals are overwhelmed and doctors and nurses are becoming infected daily.

We’re joined by Dr Gideon Kendino MBE, Manager of the Covid-19 National Control Centre in Port Moresby; and Kate Lyons, the Guardian Australia’s Pacific correspondent, to find out what’s going on, on the ground.

Australia is sending emergency supplies of the Covid vaccine and specialist medical teams to help manage the crisis. Is PNG’s emergency soon to become Australia’s emergency…?

In Today's Headlines 

• East coast flood crisis worsens

• Australia's vaccine rollout ramps up today

• TGA approves local production of AstraZeneca vaccine

• Two Australians detained in Myanmar

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