Calls for Australia to fast track vaccines to PNG as COVID-19 numbers rise rapidly

Published: March 15, 2021, 7 p.m.

Australia's Opposition is urging the Government to send vaccines to PNG immediately, so frontline health workers can be immunised, after local authorities confirmed another five COVID-19 deaths and almost 100 new positive cases. Australian officials have told the ABC they're "deeply worried" about the situation and are in talks to confirm what support the government will provide.