PNG Pandemic threat to Torres Strait Islands

Image:Image: Flickr – Brad Marsellos

Saibai island in the Torres Strait is so close to Papua New Guinea that you can see the country and swim to it.  So there is a risk that the pandemic currently ravaging PNG could jump across the Torres Strait islands to the mainland.

Many medical cases from PNG and the Islands end up in Queensland Hospitals, so vaccination has become urgent.

Produced By: Andrew Herlinger

Featured In Story: Dr Jason Agostino – Medical Advisor for the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, and

First aired on The Wire, Monday 26 April 2021