{"id":117753,"date":"2021-03-20T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=117753"},"modified":"2021-03-20T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:52:54","slug":"new-covid-19-cases-surge-in-papua-new-guinea-ahead-of-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/new-covid-19-cases-surge-in-papua-new-guinea-ahead-of-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 cases surge in Papua New Guinea ahead of restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A woman washes clothes on a wooden path between stilt houses at Hanuabada Village, located in Port Moresby Harbour, Papua New Guinea, November 19, 2018.  REUTERS\/David Gray<\/figcaption><p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) &#8211; Papua New Guinea reported rising coronavirus infections on Saturday, continuing a surge that highlights the need for tougher social distancing restrictions taking effect on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Internal border controls will be tightened, personal movement restricted and mask wearing made mandatory in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, which has been overwhelming the public health system.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities in the Pacific island nation of 9 million people said they will ban mass gatherings, close schools and may order burials in a \u201cdesignated mass grave\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>PNG has recorded hundreds of new daily COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. Saturday\u2019s announcement of 295 infections for Thursday and 132 for Friday brings confirmed cases to 3,085 with 36 deaths, but health experts believe the true numbers are likely much higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to a high number of cases being detected, it is difficult sometimes to get everyone to isolate in a designated facility so please if you are told to isolate at home make sure you do that,\u201d Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner David Manning said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Manning said that Richard Mendani, a member of parliament representing the Kerema Open electorate, had died after being infected with the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, his passing comes one year to the day since the first COVID-19 infection was detected in our country,\u201d Manning said.<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand Defence aircraft on Saturday delivered four tonnes (8,800 pounds) of personal protective equipment, health authorities said, including hand sanitiser, goggles, biohazard bags and surgical masks.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring Australia has pledged 8,000 doses of the AstraZeneca PLC vaccine for PNG health workers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-papua\/new-covid-19-cases-surge-in-papua-new-guinea-ahead-of-restrictions-idUSKBN2BC0A2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A woman washes clothes on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23054],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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