Papua New Guinea has denied entry to Chinese nationals who participated in a coronavirus vaccine trial, the Australian newspaper said today, as thePacific nation battles a worsening outbreak, Reuters reports. "The Ramu workers didn't get a Papua New Guinea entry permit," a source with knowledge of the plant's operations told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Ramu had told Papua New Guinea health authorities that 48 staff received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on August 10, PNG news station NBC said. Health officials are on tenterhooks after a steep jump in infections in the past month threatens to overun the health care system in Papua New Guinea, which largely avoided the first wave. "The national department of health (NDoH) has not approved any vaccine trials in PNG," Manning said.

Source: The Standard August 21, 2020 08:48 UTC