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.

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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 ...

After initially intending to use AstraZeneca for its entire ... Australia wants to supply the region with vaccines. Australia is separated from PNG by just a few hundred miles.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AstraZeneca has agreed to acquire U.S.-based vaccine developer Icosavax for $1.1 billion, the companies announced Tuesday, to gain access to experimental vaccines targeting common respiratory ...

The company already had moved to pull the vaccine from European Union markets, and that became effective Tuesday. Related AstraZeneca to pay $425 million to settle Nexium, Prilosec lawsuits ...

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 ...

Morrison said the EU deploying AstraZeneca vaccines directly to PNG would “be following through on the very public statements that have been made in the European Union about their commitment to ...