Papua New Guinea has received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines as the country raced to quell a Covid-19 surge overwhelming its fragile health system.
An initial shipment of 8,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine was flown in from neighbouring Australia, earmarked to protect badly hit frontline hospital staff, according to an AFP report.
Papua New Guinea survived a year without widespread community transmission, but the impoverished Melanesian nation is now detecting hundreds of cases each day.
