Papua New Guinea residents have been told they must learn to live with COVID-19 as the Government looks to abandon lockdown measures aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
"If we don't stop this fire, our bed space in Port Moresby General Hospital is so small that we can't deal with an outbreak that is pandemic in nature," he said at the time. He said the Government had to walk a tightrope with the economy already under stress before the pandemic. Now COVID-19 has put it "on the brink".As a result, the Governor said he had been pushing for a new strategy to fight coronavirus that was based on "the reality" of life in PNG.Why some think lockdowns aren't realistic in PNG
The lifting of lockdown measures will allow public buses to restart services and schools to reopen on Monday. A team of Australian health workers flew to Papua New Guinea last week as coronavirus cases there continued to rise.
The optimal and effective management strategy. Lockdown unnecessarily causes more harm than providing any good. It's a bloody 'cold' with a survival rate of 99.74% for crying out loud. Covid alone is not even lethal. Nor is it as lethal as the flu.
I can see how this is going to go. They'll be asking for help in a few weeks.
Fair enough I guess.
Just like trump has surrendered the USA to COVID19
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