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Just 1.7% of people in PNG are vaccinated against COVID. Why is resistance so fierce?

  • Written by: Fraser Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Waikato
Just 1.7% of people in PNG are vaccinated against COVID. Why is resistance so fierce?Papua New Guinea National Department of Health/Facebook

Only 1.7% of Papua New Guineans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This has been a cause of concern for the international community, who are watching the virus spread through an exposed population with high rates of co-morbidities and minimal access to healthcare.

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