Monday, 12 October, 2020 Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, has expressed Government’s appreciation to the United Nations and the Chinese government for donating 30 ventilators to assist in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. They were officially presented to Prime Minister Marape witnessed by new Minister for Health Dr Sir Puka Temu in Port Moresby
Monday 12 October 2020 Eleven new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases from Western Province were reported in the last 24 hours, raising PNG’s total COVID-19 cases to 565. Western Province has 202 cases whilst the National Capital District (NCD) maintains the highest number of cases with 334. All the new cases come from North Fly electorate
Sunday 11 October 2020 Three additional coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have been reported in the National Capital District (NCD) in the last 24 hours bringing Papua New Guinea’s total cases to 554. The new cases bring the total confirmed cases for NCD to 334. Controller of the National Pandemic Response, David Manning said, two of
Saturday 10 October 2020 A 40-year-old man is the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case reported in the National Capital District (NCD) in the last 24 hours. This brings the total COVID-19 confirmed cases for NCD to 331; and 551 for Papua New Guinea. A resident of Moresby North East electorate, the latest case had fever,
Friday 9 October 2020 An 11-year-old female student is the latest person to be tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours. The case is a resident of Taurama in Moresby South electorate. She has no symptoms of COVID-19 at the time of testing but is a contact of a positive case.
Thursday 8 October 2020 Three new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have been reported in the National Capital District (NCD) in the last 24 hours, bringing PNG’s total COVID-19 cases to 549. NCD has the highest number of cases at 329 whilst Western Province has the second highest with191 cases. Controller of the National Pandemic Response,
Wednesday 7 October 2020 Five new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have been reported in Papua New Guinea in the last 24 hours, bringing PNG’s total COVID-19 cases to 546. Three cases were confirmed in the National Capital District (NCD) whilst two new cases have been confirmed in West New Britain (WNB). Controller of the National
Tuesday, 6 October, 2020 The Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP, has committed K5 million towards rebuilding the Paediatric, Nutrition and Tuberculosis wing of the Boram Hospital, East Sepik Province. The commitment was made after a visit to the Hospital on Sunday 5 October 2020 where work on the building is yet to begin, due
4 October, 2020 A Primary School in the Gawi District of East Sepik Province will now benefit from a program initiated by the family of the Prime Minister James Marape. Prime Minister Marape said seeing malnutrition (under nutrition) made him very sad that he and his family will be starting up a school feeding program
Tuesday 6 October 2020 A programme to make markets a safer place for womenfolk was officially launched yesterday by Prime Minister, James Marape. The Markets, Economic Recovery and Inclusion (MERI) Program is designed to help make markets in PNG more compliant with PNG Government’s COVID guidelines and aims to be rolled out across the 14
