Covid 19 Pandemic

Wearing Of Masks Enforced

  1. All persons should where possible wear masks to protect Papua New Guinea from COVID-19.
  2. No person shall be permitted entry to, or otherwise remain within, any enclosed space within an Establishment as defined in paragraph 8, unless the person is wearing a Mask or Face Covering, in a manner which covers their mouth, nose and chin.
  3. No person shall be permitted entry into an aircraft anywhere in PNG unless the person is wearing a Mask or Face Covering in a manner, which covers their mouth, nose and chin.

PNG Confirms 13 New Omicron cases

This were the results from the last two updates on Thursday, 17th and Friday, 18th February 2022. On the 17th, 13 new Omicron cases were reported from the samples that were sent down to Australia, raising the total number of this new variant to 14 so far.

These 13 new cases of Omicron were among 333 new cases of COVID-19 reported on this day.

People urged to change mindset

Minister Wong said that we are our own worst enemy and have become complacent listening to negative feedback on social media, talking about how evil the vaccine was and how this disease will not kill us when it got here.

“Like just the other day I saw on Facebook, a very senior doctor said that, ‘how can we take the vaccination if we don’t understand the vaccine?”

He added that it was negative to say such things and that when you are a doctor putting out vaccines to people, any kind of vaccine, is to help people.