{"id":29837,"date":"2021-03-17T13:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/png-could-already-have-vaccines-if-australia-had-not-blocked-waiver-says-msf"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:06:32","slug":"png-could-already-have-vaccines-if-australia-had-not-blocked-waiver-says-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29837","title":{"rendered":"PNG could already have vaccines if Australia had not blocked waiver, says MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res says Australia\u2019s opposition of intellectual property waiver probably hindered Pacific nation\u2019s battle with Covid <\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea could have received Covid-19 vaccines before its current crisis if Australia had not been part of a group of countries that blocked a proposal to free up access to Covid-19 medicines, say M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt [if] the intellectual property waiver had been hastened and scaled at an earlier time there was a higher probability that Papua New Guinea would have been able to get vaccines [by now],\u201d Jennifer Tierney, Executive Director of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) Australia said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/png-could-already-have-vaccines-if-australia-had-not-blocked-waiver-says-msf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res says Australia\u2019s opposition of intellectual property waiver probably hindered Pacific nation\u2019s battle with Covid Papua New Guinea could have received Covid-19 vaccines before its current crisis if Australia had not been part of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"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":[41,43,1066,914,874,267,299,1787,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-science","category-trade-and-development","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837","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\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}