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Wed 12 May 2021 17.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 09.18 EDT Prior to receiving the jab he had told people he would be the vaccine’s PNG “guinea pig”; that if he died people didn’t have to take it, but if he didn’t, he hoped others would follow suit and receive the vaccination. Marape’s two brothers were also in the first group to receive the vaccine, despite not being frontline health workers. Speaking to the Post Courier after the injections, his brother, Warren Marape, said they did so out of concern for their brother. “We were worried, we were concerned,” Warren told the Post Courier. “What made it worse was that there were so many conspiracy theories and even some doctors… posting in public forums and social media against the AstraZeneca vaccines… a Papua New Guinean will stand by his brother, if it means to die with his brother, he will,” he said.

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