I live with six others in Port Moresby, which is at the centre of PNG's COVID-19 outbreak. If one of us tests positive to this deadly virus, I am unsure how we will be able to isolate ourselves.

I live with six others in Port Moresby, which is at the centre of PNG's COVID-19 outbreak. If one of us tests positive to this deadly virus, I am unsure how we will be able to isolate ourselves.

One of UNICEF's key representatives in PNG says the country's health system can withstand the worsening coronavirus emergency. Dr Shaikh Kabir says the arrival of vaccines will offer protection to frontline workers and give them greater mental strength and courage to fight the COVID-19 menace.

A team of AUSMAT specialists land in Papua New Guinea with an emergency supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as COVID-19 infections surge. Natalie Whiting reports.

A forward team of AUSMAT health specialists lands in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby with an emergency supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine to help local health authorities deal with the spiralling coronavirus crisis there.

Jumlah infeksi COVID-19 harian di Papua Nugini telah mencapai rekor tertinggi, dengan 295 kasus tercatat dalam kurun waktu 24 jam.

New Zealand has delivered supplies of PPE to Papua New Guinea to assist the country with its worsening COVID-19 outbreak but there are calls to consider sending vaccines and medical staff.

Papua New Guinea's biggest hospital is reporting a 70 per cent positive rate for COVID-19 among symptomatic patients, while health officials warn of a coming spike in deaths.

Papua New Guinea's biggest hospital is reporting a 70 per cent positive rate for COVID-19 among symptomatic patients, while health officials warn of a coming spike in deaths.

The PNG Hunters rugby league team relocate to Queensland's Gold Coast for up to eight months to try and save the future of the game in their country, as the coronavirus pandemic worsens in their homeland.

Close to half of the people being tested at the country's largest hospital are returning a positive result. Natalie Whiting reports.

The ex-pat PNG and Fijian communities are expected to turn out in force when the Hunters and Silktails play their first «home» matches of the new rugby league season. Both sideswill be based in Australia due COVID-19 border restrictions.

Astonishing level of commitment to rugby league by the PNG Hunters

A Papua New Guinea church leader is urging the public to follow new government restrictions as 128 new cases push COVID-19 infections in the country to more than 2400 cases.

Scott Morrison says Australia stands by its vaccine commitment to Papau New Guinea.

Some 18,000 students in Papua New Guinea are set to access e-learning for the first time after a Queensland organisation recycled 300 electronic devices out of discarded e-waste.

They still cook and crochet but the most popular class run by the Coolangatta branch of the Country Women's Association is very 2021 — it's a hip-hop class.

For almost a year, PNG appeared to escape the worst ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, but the numbers now coming out of the Pacific nation's biggest hospital are staggering and frightening.

Refugee advocates say six asylum seekers in PNG have tested positive to coronavirus in the past two weeks as the local health system threatens to buckle under the weight of a spiralling outbreak.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced Australia will share 8,000 vaccine doses with Papua New Guinea, but experts warn the country is already on the precipice of a COVID-19 catastrophe.

Torres and Cape Health Service northern director Marlow Coates said the community was responding well.

The vaccines are being sent in an attempt to stop new variants from developing. Natalie Whiting reports.

Queensland records no community transmission but a rise in allergic reactions prompts health authorities to change protocols around the vaccine roll out. It comes as flights into Cairns from Papua New Guinea are suspended.

Some islands in the Torres Strait are just a short dinghy trip from Papua New Guinea, and the community on the Australian side of the border is ramping up efforts to protect people from the possibility of coronavirus crossing over.

Mr Morrison says the Australian government will aid Papua New Guinea by providing vaccine doses and freezing most travel to and from PNG as the COVID-19 situation there worsens.

It's been a year since Leo Pugram picked up his tattoo gun, but he's finding other ways to stay positive during the pandemic. His is one of four stories chronicled in a new documentary about the global pandemic's impacts on the Pacific.

As infections rise, speculation continues to mount in Papua New Guinea over what shape a proposed COVID-19 «isolation strategy» will take.

Australia will send 8,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine supply to Papua New Guinea, in response to a worsening outbreak of the virus in the country.

Flights into Cairns from Papua New Guinea will be suspended from midnight as the country struggles to contain a surge in coronavirus infections.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce Australian-made AstraZeneca vaccines will be distributed throughout the Pacific from May — slightly later than some analysts expected.

Australia's Opposition is urging the Government to send vaccines to PNG immediately, so frontline health workers can be immunised, after local authorities confirmed another five COVID-19 deaths and almost 100 new positive cases. Australian officials have told the ABC they're «deeply worried» about the situation and are in talks to confirm what support the government will provide.

PNG's Prime Minister James Marape asks Australia to supply vaccines for health workers, warning his nation is approaching an infection rate «of about one person to three or four».

Annastacia Palaszczuk says she hopes to speak to the Prime Minister about the emerging health crisis in Papua New Guinea, where a high number of COVID-19 tests are returning positive results.

Concerns mount after Papua New Guinea, which is on the doorstep of the Torres Strait and Queensland, faces a significant rise in coronavirus cases, with hospitals struggling to keep up with demand.