'We have nothing': Papua New Guinea's broken health system braces for Covid-19

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'We have nothing': Papua New Guinea's broken health system braces for Covid-19
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In a country where nurses are forced to use rice packets as gloves and laundry detergent as disinfectant, there is terror at the arrival of coronavirus

The first that staff at Nonga General Hospital in Papua New Guinea heard that they had been treating someone with coronavirus, was when they saw the country’s prime minister announce it in televised press conference on Monday.

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