PNG Issues Warning to China Over COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

PNG Issues Warning to China Over COVID-19 Vaccine Trial
A China Southern Airlines Airbus A380 taxis at Beijing's Daxing International Airport in China on May 13, 2019. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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The small pacific nation of Papua New Guinea is demanding answers from Beijing after reports emerged that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was using PNG-posted workers as guinea pigs to test a Chinese-developed trial COVID-19 vaccine.

In a report on Aug. 20, The Australian newspaper revealed that Chinese state-owned Ramu Nickel Management Limited had informed the PNG government it had vaccinated its fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) workers with an experimental SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on Aug. 10.
Victoria Kelly-Clark
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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