Papua New Guinea's New Ireland province is an idyllic Pacific paradise surrounded by coconut trees, turquoise waters and friendly locals
The organisation has been encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But Ms Zilliacus said extreme vaccine hesitancy was making things difficult.She said misinformation fuelled by social media and traditional beliefs was causing many people to mistakenly believe the vaccines were dangerous."That's in part driven a lot by a very low-level understanding of biology and science, and a background of having a culture around witchcraft and a belief in superstitions.
According to official data, only 1.7 per cent of PNG's eligible population of 4.7 million people has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.that 130,000 AstraZeneca doses donated by the COVAX facility expired in July and thousands of vials were destroyed without being used. "We've also been helping to fund and partner with churches, with sporting organisations, with NGOs, with other community leaders to be getting the message out about the need for vaccinations," Minister for the Pacific Zed Seselja said.the low vaccination rate"There is no doubt that in PNG, in many places that message isn't getting through because we know that the vaccination rates are just nowhere near high enough," Senator Seselja said.
More stupidity. Beggars belief.
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