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Vaccines cold comfort with PNG’s erratic power supply

Australia’s nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea, is battling an unfolding Covid crisis. The Morrison government is urgently deploying 8,000 vaccine doses to the nation’s health workers – but poor electricity access means there are serious questions over PNG’s broader vaccine roll-out. Vaccine supplies must be stored at cold or ultra-cold temperatures along the supply chain. Importantly, when […]