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A lack of essential goods access to healthcare has increased the threat of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Torres Strait Islands, federal MP Warren Entsch says. ....
Login Treaty Islands cut off from PNG mainland in critical need of vaccine: Warren Entsch 17/03/2021|6min Getting the vaccines out to the outer Treaty Islands of Papua New Guinea is “absolutely critical” because PNG locals rely heavily on them for “daily essentials”, according to Liberal MP Warren Entsch. Mr Entsch said the Papua New Guinean government has banned locals from these outer islands from crossing over into the mainland. “There is no welfare in PNG. So if they can’t grow it or catch it – then they go hungry, he said. Mr Entsch also said locals from the PNG mainland buy most of their essentials from stores from the Treaty Villages on the islands of Boigu and Saibai – but since the PNG government has banned travel to these outer islands many locals do not have access to daily essentials. ....