Tagged: COVID-19

Police charge two for breaching quarantine orders

A COVID-19 Person of Interest (POI) and a female are facing the Waigani Committal Court after their arrest by police for breaching quarantine orders. Japeth Warus, 27 year old male of mix Morobe and...

PNG confirms 11th COVID-19 case

Papua New Guinea confirms the 11th case of COVID-19 after aggressive contact tracing and a step up in targeted testing. Case 11 is a 26 year old female that resides in Port Moresby and...

PNG confirms 9th COVID-19 case

EVERYONE in Papua New Guinea has a responsibility to ensure coronavirus 2019 or COVID-19 does not spread throughout the country, medical experts said following the announcement on Saturday of the 9th COVID-19 case. The...

PNG joins countries without COVID-19

PAPUA New Guinea has not had any cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for the last 44 days which makes it COVID-19 free as other countries without any cases yet. However, health authorities and...

Correctional Services to secure quarantine facilities

The PNG Correctional Services (CS) will be brought into the COVID-19 Operations to assist in the monitoring of quarantined persons and ensure they remain in the designated quarantine facilities for the entire 14 day...