Solomons border communities prioritised for vaccines

The Solomon Islands government is this week planning to rollout Covid-19 vaccinations for communities along its western border with Papua New Guinea.

RNZ reports the neighbouring Solomon Islands by comparison has no Covid-19 deaths and less than 30 cases of the virus, all of them contained in managed isolation.

However, the closeness of PNG's region of Bougainville to Solomon Islands, and the fact it has over a hundred confirmed cases of the virus, continues to worry the government in Honiara.

Health authorities in the Solomons capital have already been vaccinating frontline health workers in the capital.

The country received its first shipment of 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine a fortnight ago.

[Source: RNZ]