Company, City partner govt to carry out Covid-19 talks

By LARRY ANDREW
LAE Biscuit Company and National Soccer League champions Lae City have partnered the Morobe Provincial Health Authority to carry out awareness on the Covid-19 pandemic in schools in the province. The company and City players carried out awareness at Markham Road Primary School to kick off the initiative. The initiative, a community obligation of the company, will only strengthen the public-private partnership through health and social awareness.
Company marketing head Harry Kaisa said apart from carrying out awareness, the partnership would see the donation of hand sanitisers. He said they were working with schools in Lae, but would hopefully visit the Miles areas and parts of rural Morobe to talk about Covid-19. “Covid-19 is here to stay so we had to talk about it, the more we talk about it, we are better informed to make educated decisions,” Kaisa told Markham Road Primary School teachers.
“Teachers are no strangers to this, you are frontline workers. “If you are not informed well, the chances are we won’t roll out this awareness and be successful. “We are using our City players to talk to students.” Kaisa said many people were afraid to take the vaccine because of misinformation and misconception. “If we can get 80 per cent of our population vaccinated, the chances are that the spread of Covid-19 will be very minimal,” he said. City’s Alvin Komolong, who received the jab, said: “It won’t affect me but I know it will affect my father, my mother and others around me.
“It’s one of the many reasons why I grabbed the opportunity to take the jab.”