PNG PM Marape says Outbreak of COVID-19 through CPHL Staff
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has revealed that the spread of COVID -19 in Port Moresby was through a Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) staff who was not fully protected got the virus and spread it.
The prime minister said, all staff were protected and given Personal Protective Equipment except the driver who did not have his mask on.
Mr. Marape said he was informed of this, following an inquiry into how the staff got infected in the first place.
“We did a little bit of search into what happened there and from information that I am getting at my level, they [CPHL staff] were equipped with PPE’s but one of them had contact with the driver who was not masked or properly equipped and from that contact with that driver who became positive also, has spread onto the four who were working inside.
So that is a classical indication of community transmission prevalence in Port Moresby,” Mr. Marape said.
The CPHL outbreak led to the first thirty COVID-cases in NCD, with many other family members and contacts traced and found to be positive as well.
The lab was fumigated and decontaminated, with staff resuming duties just yesterday.
NBC News/PNG Today
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