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Facebook virus lies ‘biggest challenge’ to PNG vaccine drive: minister
PORT MORESBY: Papua New Guinea’s health minister on Thursday called disinformation spread on Facebook the “biggest challenge” to efforts to curb the rampant spread of Covid-19 in the poor Pacific nation.Jelta Wong said “dangerous” posts and anti-vax conspiracy theories were hampering the drive to get people to seek treatment and testing for the disease as infection numbers soar.“When Facebook hit Papua New Guinea everybody became an expert,“ Wong told an online event organised by Sydney’s Lowy Institute think tank.“Everybody had a PhD, even sitting under a coconut tree they became a PhD,“ he said in describing the spread of faulty information about coronavirus by users of the platform.PNG, a

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