{"id":34044,"date":"2021-07-14T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/its-just-like-flu-misinformation-and-fear-hamper-papua-new-guineas-covid-vaccine-rollout"},"modified":"2021-07-14T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:00:02","slug":"its-just-like-flu-misinformation-and-fear-hamper-papua-new-guineas-covid-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34044","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s just like flu\u2019: misinformation and fear hamper Papua New Guinea\u2019s Covid vaccine rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three months after the first vaccine was administered, less than 0.6% of the population have received their first dose <\/p>\n<p>Three months since Papua New Guinea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/30\/png-prime-minister-first-to-be-vaccinated-with-australian-supplied-doses-to-show-its-safe\">launched its Covid vaccine rollout<\/a>, just 60,000 people \u2013 or 0.6% of the population \u2013 have received their first dose, with many people hesitant due to misinformation and fears around the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/26\/inside-the-covid-unit-crisis-threatens-to-overwhelm-pngs-biggest-hospital\">recent surge in cases<\/a> that has overwhelmed the already rickety health system, just over 2,800 people have received their second dose.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/its-just-like-flu-misinformation-and-fear-hamper-papua-new-guineas-covid-vaccine-rollout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three months after the first vaccine was administered, less than 0.6% of the population have received their first dose Three months since Papua New Guinea launched its Covid vaccine rollout, just 60,000 people \u2013 or 0.6% of the population \u2013 ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"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":[41,1066,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/34044","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\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34045,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34044\/revisions\/34045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}