PNG outbreak

Papua New Guinea's parliament has adjourned for almost four months. The adjournment allows prime minister James Marape to avoid a no confidence vote in which former prime minister Peter O'Neill was nominated alternate prime minister. The adjournment was deemed necessary after testing showed a quarter of staff at parliament are infected with Covid-19. From preliminary sampling of 167 people within the parliament precinct, 42 – or a quarter of them – tested positive for the virus. Most of those infected were staff rather than MPs, but several MPs tested positive earlier this year.