Here's the latest on the worsening COVID-19 situation in Papua New Guinea.
Australia is expected to ramp up urgent coronavirus assistance to Papua New Guinea as aid groups warn the country is facing a public health catastrophe from a "staggering" increase in cases.
PNG's Prime Minister James Marape sounded the alarm on the pandemic yesterday, warning that his nation was approaching an infection rate "of about one person to three or four".
"The number is quite staggering, if we don't do [a] corrective response to this, our health system will be clogged and we won't be able to sustain it," Mr Marape told journalists in Port Moresby.
The pandemic has already placed enormous strain on PNG's hospitals and health clinics.
Port Moresby Hospital's COVID-19 isolation ward is full and additional beds are filling up rapidly, while dozens of medical workers have tested positive.
The pandemic has infected PNG politicians, staff at key national institutions such as the Prime Minister's Department and Australian diplomatic officials working in the country.
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