The need for vaccine awareness is greater than ever in Papua New Guinea as it struggles with Covid-10, according to a health specialist there.
PNG's worrying surge of the coronavirus has seen the number of confirmed cases more than quadruple in the past month alone to about 8-thousand.
As health authorities try and stem the rate of infection around the country, the rollout of a first batch of 8,000 AstraZeneca vaccines has begun... slowly.
The World Bank's senior health specialist in PNG, Dr Edith Kariko, spoke to me about the country's health crisis.
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Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape was the first in his country to get the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. 30 March, 2021. Photo: PNG PM Media