Virus-hit Papua New Guinea starts vaccine roll-out

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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AFP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister launched a nationwide coronavirus vaccine roll-out Tuesday, hoping to quell a runaway outbreak and counter widespread public hesitancy about jabs. James Marape said a batch of 100,000 vaccines had arrived in Papua New Guinea and would be distributed countrywide, as he urged sceptical health workers and the general public to get vaccinated. “We want to reduce and prevent deaths of our people,” he […]