Sunday 5 December 2021
Milne Bay was the only province to report 41 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday 4 December 2021, pushing the total number of confirmed cases in Papua New Guinea to 35,538.
No new cases were reported for the other 21 provinces.
A COVID-19 updates from the National Control Centre (NCC) has also highlighted a total of 34,555 people having recovered from the virus, while there were 550 confirmed deaths.
NCC further provided the following cumulative figures for the 22 provinces:
- NCD – 9245 cases, 9071 recoveries, 102 deaths, 162 delta cases;
- Western – 3610 cases, 3573 recoveries, 33 deaths, 32 delta cases;
- Western Highlands – 2713 cases, 2622 recoveries, 79 deaths, three delta cases;
- Morobe – 2485 cases, 2456 recoveries, 27 deaths, 65 delta cases;
- Eastern Highlands – 2148 cases, 2057 recoveries, 90 deaths, 22 delta cases;
- East New Britain – 2139 cases, 2004 recoveries, 26 deaths, one delta case;
- Madang – 1262 cases, 1224 recoveries, 29 deaths, four delta cases;
- West New Britain – 1203 cases, 1197 recoveries, six deaths;
- Milne Bay – 1173 cases, 1150 recoveries, five deaths, one delta case
- Chimbu – 1058 cases, 1047 recoveries, 11 deaths, 14 delta cases;
- Enga – 1042 cases, 1031 recoveries, six deaths, four delta cases;
- Southern Highlands -1027 cases, 947 recoveries, 53 deaths;
- Autonomous Region of Bougainville – 850 cases, 766 recoveries, eight deaths;
- Central – 810 cases, 784 recoveries, two deaths, four delta cases;
- West Sepik – 762 cases, 749 recoveries, 13 deaths, 56 delta cases;
- Hela – 743 cases, 721 recoveries, six deaths, 13 delta cases;
- New Ireland – 726 cases, 714 recoveries, nine deaths, one delta case;
- East Sepik – 672 cases, 663 recoveries, eight deaths;
- Manus – 618 cases, 610 recoveries, eight deaths, two delta cases;
- Gulf – 469 cases, 423 recoveries;
- Jiwaka – 421 cases, 384 recoveries, 29 deaths;
- Northern – 362 cases, 362 recoveries.
The total number of COVID-19 tests conducted so far has risen to 263,425 whilst the delta variant cases has increased to 398.
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