Help curb cases of Covid-19

AS the coronavirus continues to spread, some countries are putting their citizens on various forms of lockdown, though that is not a technical term used by public health officials.
It can refer to anything from mandatory quarantine to non-mandatory recommendations to stay at home, closures of certain types of businesses, or bans on events and gatherings, Lindsay Wiley, a health law professor at the Washington College of Law was quoted as saying.
Countries around the world are implementing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, from national quarantines to school closures.
Several countries (such as Spain, Iran, Italy, Denmark, Israel, and Germany) that previously imposed restrictions are beginning to lift lockdown measures.
But results were mixed.
China has reinstated a strict lockdown near Beijing, affecting around 400,000 people, after a small surge in cases.
After the pandemic emerged in China at the end of last year, the country has managed to get new infections to a consistently low level.
To avoid a second wave, even small surges are taken very seriously by the country’s health authorities.
Australian State Victoria – whose capital Melbourne started its second six-week lockdown on July 8 – reported 627 new infections on July 31.
The state, which for months prided itself on a tough approach to social distancing measures, now accounts for more than half of Australia’s 198 deaths from the virus and about 60 per cent of the country’s 16,900 cases. And here in PNG, we still have ignorant people who were not complying with the various orders and putting everyone at risk with their no-care behaviour.
Today is Day 48 of the new normal “Niupela Pasin” and the 18th day since we started seeing daily increases of the Covid-19 cases.
Niupela Pasin is the new way of living that makes basic hygiene and safe distancing a part of our new culture – as individuals, as families, as communities.
It means adopting behaviours and actions that are consistently practiced to reduce risk of the Covid-19 and other infectious disease.
It involves a society where people take responsibility for their own health and their families.
During these 18 days (from July 16 to Aug 2) Papua New Guinea recorded 80 new cases and two deaths.
Statistics here see 91 confirmed coronavirus cases, out of these, two have died and 34 have recovered while 51 are active cases – three are severe, three moderate and the rest are mild.
The 91 cases include; two from Morobe, three from Western, two from East New Britain, one from Eastern Highlands and 83 from NCD.
With the number spike of confirmed cases in Port Moresby, residents of Port Moresby city were called on to be very cautious of their movement. Limit movement and comply with heath measures by washing or sanitising your hands:
lWEAR face masks at all times in public places;
lWASH your hands with soap and water (practice personal hygiene);
lMAINTAIN social distancing (stay at least 1-2 meters way from others);
lSNEEZE into your elbow; and,
lDO not touch your face, eyes and nose.
Isolate yourself by staying at home, if you have nothing to do in other places.
Maintain physical distancing.
Let us help the Government and take responsibility of our own health and that of our family and community.