PNG needs to increase the uptake of vaccines. The 130,000 vials of AstraZeneca the country received under the COVAX program, which makes up the bulk of its doses, will expire next month.

Australia has provided 8,400 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to PNG and is now committing to supply 10,000 doses every week along with medical support. PNG has experienced an eight-fold increase ...

Australia is urging the European Union to divert 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine that it’s already contracted to near-neighbor Papua New Guinea, as a wave of coronavirus ...

Australia asks European Union to divert one million of its AstraZeneca vaccine doses to PNG, where COVID-19 is straining the health system. Experts fear PNG, one of the poorest countries in the ...

PNG is due to get 588,000 doses of vaccine ... to an Australian request that it release 1 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine that has been contracted to go to Australia, to PNG instead ...

Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape received the AstraZeneca vaccine back in March ... “There has been underinvestment by the PNG government in the health system for a long time ...

SYDNEY, April 7 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea will receive 132,000 doses of AstraZeneca PLC's (AZN.L), opens new tab COVID-19 vaccine from India next week, the PNG government told Reuters ...

PNG has detected more than 10,000 cases of ... the EU refusal to allow the export of 3.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine was a key reason for Canberra lagging behind its own vaccination ...