{"id":29541,"date":"2021-03-10T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/papua-new-guinea-forced-to-wait-for-vaccines-as-coronavirus-crisis-spirals-out-of-control"},"modified":"2021-03-10T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:00:04","slug":"papua-new-guinea-forced-to-wait-for-vaccines-as-coronavirus-crisis-spirals-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29541","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea forced to wait for vaccines as coronavirus crisis spirals out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Port Moresby\u2019s general hospital, 40% of mothers admitted to the labour ward tested positive for Covid-19<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea will not get its first Covid-19 vaccines until next month at the earliest, despite an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak spiralling across the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/papua-new-guinea-hospitals-run-out-of-funding-as-covid-cases-surge\">hospitals shutting their doors to patients<\/a>, and an already vulnerable healthcare system on the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>At Port Moresby\u2019s general hospital, 40% of mothers admitted to the labour ward were reported to have tested positive for Covid-19, but could not be separated from other mothers because there is no isolation labour ward for them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/papua-new-guinea-forced-to-wait-for-vaccines-as-coronavirus-crisis-spirals-out-of-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Port Moresby\u2019s general hospital, 40% of mothers admitted to the labour ward tested positive for Covid-19Papua New Guinea will not get its first Covid-19 vaccines until next month at the earliest, despite an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak spiralli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1640,1066,914,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-astrazeneca","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29575,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions\/29575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}