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Surge in COVID-19 Cases Highlights Need to Ramp Up Vaccinations in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank
09 Aug 2021
  Indonesia;   Bangladesh;   Fiji;   Papua New Guinea

In brief: news from around the Pacific

RNZ
07 Jul 2021
  Papua New Guinea;   Samoa;   Tonga

World Bank’s Operational Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in East Asia and the Pacific

World Bank
10 Jun 2021
  Cambodia;   People's Republic of China;   Fiji;   Indonesia;   Kiribati;   Lao PDR;   Marshall Islands;   Federated States of Micronesia;   Mongolia;   Myanmar;   Papua New Guinea;   Philippines;   Samoa;   Solomon Islands;   Timor-Leste;   Tonga;   Tuvalu;   Vanuatu;   Viet Nam

Australia to send coronavirus vaccines to PNG amid outbreak

Solomon Times
18 Mar 2021
  Australia;   Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea reopens for limited international flights

Ch-aviation
02 Feb 2021
  Papua New Guinea

ADB, Olam to support smallholder farmers livelihoods disrupted by COVID-19

ADB
09 Dec 2020
  Indonesia;   Papua New Guinea;   Viet Nam

ADB approves $250 million loan to support PNG’s response to COVID-19

ADB
26 Nov 2020
  Papua New Guinea

ADB announces $150 million to support universal health care in PNG

ADB
26 Nov 2020
  Papua New Guinea

US-donated ventilators to boost Kiribati’s fight against COVID-19

US Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu
30 Sep 2020
  Kiribati;   United States

USAID provides ventilators to Fiji, Kiribati, and Nauru to respond to COVID-19

US Embassy in Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu
19 Aug 2020
  Fiji;   Kiribati;   Nauru

ADB, UNICEF send medical supplies to help Pacific prepare for COVID-19

ADB
28 May 2020
  Pacific

COVID-19 multi-sector response plan - Papua New Guinea disaster management team (as of 21 May 2020)

Relief Web
22 May 2020
  Papua New Guinea

Kiribati sets sights on overcoming hurdles to e-commerce

UNCTAD
20 May 2020
  Kiribati

Australia spends $100m in 'quick financial support' for Pacific countries hit by cyclone and pandemic

ABC News
20 May 2020
  Australia;   Pacific

PNG and Covid-19: The costs of economic stress

The Interpreter
19 May 2020
  Papua New Guinea