An intrepid team of Australian healthcare workers has touched down in Papua New Guinea, where they are working in the field to help stay on top of the global coronavirus crisis.
“Then I receive the list of contacts and work with teams that will routinely check in with the contacts while they do their 14-day quarantine period.”The experienced epidemiologist had been working from home in Melbourne for the past three months, which she found frustrating. “So, I guess to leave Australia when you know it is not so easy to jump on a plane should the need arise, or should you want to be there, that is a little more disconcerting.”
“The staff here are exceptionally willing to have help, to have guidance, I think COVID-19 in particular has brought lots of fear around the world, so I think people really want the support, they want the help and they are willing to do anything necessary.”The economic effect of lockdown measures has had an especially drastic toll on the country's poor and vulnerable.
“One of our greatest challenges is trying to potentially say to people stay at home and isolate, that concept is an incredibly challenged one when you are talking to people that live in big households with 12, 14 up to 20 people in them sometimes more.”Abby Peacock-Smith and Chiedza Machingaidze are deployed by humanitarian response agency RedR Australia, with funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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