PNG welcomes Australia’s promise of 8,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses as infections increase at ‘alarming’ rate

One of Papua New Guinea’s leading doctors says Australia’s promise to share COVID-19 vaccine doses is of vital importance.

“We desperately need the vaccine because our health workers are being infected at an alarming rate,” Glen Mola told 7.30.

In hotel quarantine in Cairns, the 74-year-old obstetrician is hoping to get vaccinated in Australia before returning to work in Port Moresby.

He said 8 per cent of pregnant women coming into his Port Moresby maternity unit were testing positive for COVID-19 and he was also rapidly…