In a country where nurses are forced to use rice packets as gloves and laundry detergent as disinfectant, treating coronavirus has been an enormously difficult task. Pacific editor Kate Lyons recommends this article about how Australia’s closest neighbour experienced the early days of the pandemic

You can read the original article here: ‘We have nothing’: Papua New Guinea’s broken health system braces for Covid-19

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