Thursday 4 March 2021

Papua New Guinea reported 63 new cases of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in five provinces today  (4 March), increasing the country’s total cases to 1,492.

The latest cases were reported in Morobe province, West Sepik, East Sepik, Western Province and in the National Capital District.

Controller of  the National Pandemic Response, David Manning, said  of the total cases,  six  were reported in the Morobe province, seven in West Sepik,  four in East Sepik, two in Western province, while NCD recorded 44 cases.

Four of the six cases in Morobe were  males and two females, ages ranging from 14 to 53 years old.

Mr Manning said  five  persons  showed  symptoms of COVID-19 whilst one was asymptomatic at the time of testing.  Five of the six cases have come into contact with previous known cases.

West Sepik reported seven new cases in which six are females and one male with ages ranging from 26 to 53 years.

One out of the seven cases was experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 whilst the other six were asymptomatic at the time of testing.

Mr Manning also confirmed four cases for  East Sepik of which two are males and two females, with ages  between  28 to 59 years old.

“All four cases were experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 at the time of testing.”

He added that there were two new cases  reported in the Western province, of which the  youngest  is  an 11 year old,  whilst the oldest is 23 years of age.

Both cases were  reported to have come into contact with previous known cases.

Whilst in NCD,  there were 44 cases  reported  of which 26 are males and 18 females. The youngest  was   25 years old whilst the oldest  was  65 years of age.

Mr Manning said   30  persons  were experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 whilst 14 cases were asymptomatic at the time of testing.

Eight of the 44 reported cases have come into contact with previous known cases.

The country’s COVID-19 cases as a result stand at 1,492 with 16 known deaths.

There are currently 17   provinces including the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB)  with recorded cases:  The distribution of the cases is as follows:

 

Provinces                                  Confirmed Cases

NCD                                           600
Western Province                      325
West New Britain                       196
West Sepik                                 148
AROB                                         39
East New Britain                         38
Madang                                      35
New Ireland                                23
Morobe                                       22
Western Highlands                     18
Central                                       14
Eastern Highlands                      13
East Sepik                                  13
SHP                                             3
Enga                                            3
Milne Bay                                     2
Hela                                             1
TOTAL                                       1,492

Globally, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 has reached 114,428,211 including 348,281 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll is 2,543,755 of which 7,807 were reported in the last 24 hours.

 

Media contact: Chief Superintendent Dominic D. Kakas, BEM, DPS
COVID-19 Media & Public Information Joint Agency Task Force
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