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November 13, 2021
RNZ Pacific A New Zealand medical and logistics support team with essential supplies to assist Papua New Guinea with its covid-19 crisis has departed New Zealand. Associate Foreign Minister Aupito William Sio said the PNG government had formally requested humanitarian and medical support from partner governments to respond to the health crisis, with rising case ... <a title="NZ sends medical team to PNG as covid-19 overwhelms health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/13/nz-sends-medical-team-to-png-as-covid-19-overwhelms-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about NZ sends medical team to PNG as covid-19 overwhelms health system">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
By Charles Moi in Port Moresby Employees of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) have challenged the legality of the “no jab, no job” policy imposed by NCDC on Port Moresby with a lawsuit. Lawyer George Kaore, representing the NCDC Workers Association, appeared before Deputy Chief Justice Ambeng Kandakasi to seek certain interim orders at ... <a title="Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/port-moresby-workers-challenge-no-jab-no-job-workplace-policy-in-court/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in court">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
By Carmella Gware in Lae Urban clinics in Papua New Guinea’s second city Lae have closed for an indefinite period following attacks on health workers. Anti-vaxxers have been verbally or physically attacking health workers over false claims of state mandatory vaccinations against the covid-19 pandemic. Health workers and support staff manning facilities around the city ... <a title="Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/anti-vaxxer-attacks-on-png-health-workers-force-closure-of-lae-clinics/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2021
By Marysilla Kellerton in Port Moresby Demonstrators gathered in Port Moresby yesterday for a march to Parliament in protest over the covid-19 vaccines, which they claimed wrongly to be mandatory, a day after Papua New Guinean police warned such gatherings were illegal. The protest was a result of a post circulating on social media about ... <a title="PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake info" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/02/png-police-block-illegal-anti-vaxxer-rally-in-port-moresby-amid-fake-info/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police block illegal anti-vaxxer rally in Port Moresby amid fake info">Read more</a>
