Essential businesses to open
By REBECCA KUKU
ONLY essential businesses and service providers are allowed to operate during the 14-day partial shutdown, says National Pandemic Controller David Manning.
Essential businesses include media organisations, post offices, banks, shops and markets.
“Essential services include water and electricity suppliers.
“So if you are unsure of whether or not your business or service is essential, please check with the National Operations Centre,” he said.
“The same applies for essential business travel in the next 14 days.
“So check our website and Facebook page for more information.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister James Marape advised people to remain calm as the number of confirmed cases in Port Moresby increases.
“I want to assure the people that the Government is aware of the economic impact that the ongoing crisis is having, and that we will continue to identify measures to cushion the economy and provide practical support to businesses,” he said.
“We must also take personal responsibility for our health and that of our family, our neighbours and our country.
“We must all work together to stop the spread of this invisible enemy by washing our hands, practising social distancing, and staying at home unless it is essential to go out.”
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To deter spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the city or elsewhere in PNG, the Marabe/Steven Government has ordered another two weeks lock-down beginning July 27, 2020. However during last two lock-downs since March, the country has not detected any patient of COVID-19 cases . But how comes cases have soared out and rapidly increased during last weeks of August 2020??? The root case of spread is from imported patients from foreign countries when 14 days quarantine protocol and key hot locations are not strictly managed and controlled. Why does the Government allow Air Nuigini to fly to Brisbane five times a weeks, Singapore four time a week and Cairns once a week. Recently it announced the Manila route. Are airline companies really providing essential supply lines from these international routes? We have been quite lucky for the last couple of months since start of pandemic because PNG is island country and only share land border with Indonesia. However the COVI9-19 control team headed by David Manning is strategically stubborn to assess and target the key hot locations hence the flood of cases now increasing. It appears that the SOE team are just acting randomly on panic button pressed by the Health Authorities. The Controller thus is making unilateral decisions of lock-down to suppress people’s freedom and killing the economy of this country. It is now a golden opportunity for his rogue cops to start brutalizing citizens, conducting illegal raids and stealing in pretext of carrying out the SOE orders. Good work Mr. Manning.
Png is sitting on a time bomb….social crisis is looming. Childish decisions by respective health authorities. Falsifying reports of COVID-19. Someone is cashing out of this decisions. Hope Marape and Manning are not fooled by the so called Saveman blo country. Please investigative journalism, you have a case here at hand. Please expose the scam of COVID-19 here in PNG at the highest level. If president of Tanzania a renouned medical doctor can expose the lies, hope our Dakulala is not being used.
All citizens of PNG must think and act critically during this time. It seems that the disease had spreed long time throughout the country and now people are developing symptoms. As a citizen, I think the decision made at the national level as total lock down in the nation’s capital all alone is not good enough. During March when the first case resulted in PNG and the whole nation undergone two weeks lock down but now we have 63 cases and only the nation’s capital is locked down. The whole nation should be locked down. This is due to the very fact that, in the last few months, people were allowed to move from one place to another and even between provinces and there is a high chance that the disease had been spread to other parts of the country.
Covid-19 is a WW111 between the two super powers, “CHINA & USA”. They cant fight each other with weaponaries, armories or even so called “Cold War”cos they are both fully equipped with most high-tech and sophisticated armies the world has yet to know.
This is another interesting history in the making-a BIOCHEMICAL WAR!!!! Covid-19 is here to stay and there is NOTHING one can do about to avoid. Now, Biblically speaking:
Leviticus 26:13-25
‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, read more.
I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. ‘I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. ‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. ‘I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. ‘Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. ‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. ‘I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted. ‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. ‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
That being said, PNG is and will always be the Christian Nation regardless of our sinful nature;
this is clear-JESUS is what we all need to be saved!!!!
ANSWER HERE:
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land”.
Christ is Might to Save!
The Prime Minister is not taken serious measures to combat this pandemic virus, now that the numbers of the cases is beginning to increase, it implies a bad omen for this nation. Before this pandemic virus can strike like wild Australian bush fire, James Marape needs to have in place stringent measures to combat the spread of this demonic virus. On the other hand, The National Pandemic Controller, David Manning, is incompetent for this job. Someone matured with broad knowledge on such matters should be appointed as The National Pandemic Controller. The safety of the people of this nation is of paramount importance, cause we don’t want the government to waste money to body bags…
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