2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Papua New Guinea

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Papua New Guinea was part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Papua New Guinea on 20 March 2020. On 4 May 2020, Papua New Guinea was declared COVID-19 free. However, on 20 June, the government confirmed another case of COVID-19, meaning that the disease was present again within the country. Until early 2021, the country managed to stave off a major COVID-19 outbreak, with only 1,275 cases reported at the end of February according to Johns Hopkins University. In March, cases tripled, with Prime Minister James Marape speaking of "rampant community transmission".

Text from the Wikipedia article COVID-19 pandemic in Papua New Guinea, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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