Papua New Guinea to lift lockdown despite surge in COVID-19 cases

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MELBOURNE: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is pressing ahead with plans to lift lockdown measures in the Pacific nation this week, ...

Papua New Guinea's coronavirus outbreak has spread beyond the capital, Port Moresby. MELBOURNE: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is pressing ahead with plans to lift lockdown measures in the Pacific nation this week, even as a recent sharp spike in coronavirus infections worries health officials.

PNG had a total of 214 cases and three deaths as of Sunday, the World Health Organization reported, up from 104 cases and one death the previous week. "Testing in all provinces remains critically low, therefore ongoing transmission in other parts of the country is a possibility as population mobility continues," it said."Testing needs to increase substantially to understand the extent of transmission."

 

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