COVID response: Hospital bed increase to deal with PNG cases

The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital has been undertaking detailed planning to expand its bed numbers, with more than half of Queensland’s 65 active COVID-19 cases acquiring the virus in PNG.One of the state’s latest three cases, all detected in hotel quarantine, had travelled from PNG, where the health system has been described as “on the brink of collapse”.Interim head of mission for Medecins Sans Frontieres, Doctors Without Borders, in PNG, Ghulam Nabi, said hospitals there were…



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