RNZ The Papua New Guinea Parliament building in Port Moresby. Photo: RNZ Pacific/ Koroi Hawkins Preliminary testing for Covid-19 among staff at Papua New Guinea’s parliament precinct indicates a quarter of them are infected. Speaker Job Pomat today told MPs in the house he had received a letter from PNG’s Pandemic Response Controller “questioning the serious state of the Covid-19 infections” at parliament. Controller David Manning advised compulsory testing for everyone working at parliament. Pomat said that prior to the letter he had already issued a similar directive. “I have now issued further directives for compulsory testing to be conducted to both members of staff of parliament and political staff,” Pomat explained.