Papua New Guinea (PNG) is facing an exponential increase in the spread of COVID-19, with country-wide reports of community transmission and large numbers of hospital workers and patients being diagnosed with the virus.
PNG’s Joint Agency Task Force reported 1,741 cases and 21 deaths as of March 9 – nearly double the number of cases reported one month earlier and more than double the deaths reported two weeks earlier.
Experts worry the numbers are just the tip of the iceberg because PNG has the sixth-lowest COVID-19 testing rate in the world. Only 5,240 per million people in the country have been tested compared with 41,303 per million in neighbouring Indonesia and 575,063 per million in Australia.
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