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PNG and Fiji were both facing COVID catastrophes. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?

  • Written by: Ian Kemish, Former Ambassador and Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
PNG and Fiji were both facing COVID catastrophes. Why has one vaccine rollout surged and the other stalled?Hannah Peters/Getty Images

Things were looking very bad three months ago for both Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The two Pacific countries were each looking very vulnerable to the COVID Delta variant, albeit in different ways.

On July 10, PNG recorded its first official Delta case, and the nation’s health professionals were soon warning the...

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