{"id":99020,"date":"2021-03-30T04:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=56422"},"modified":"2021-03-30T04:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:04:30","slug":"solomon-islands-police-appeal-for-help-to-stop-covid-spread-over-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/30\/solomon-islands-police-appeal-for-help-to-stop-covid-spread-over-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands police appeal for help to stop covid spread over border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/\"><em>RNZ Pacific<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police in Solomon Islands say they cannot successfully secure the western border with Papua New Guinea and stop the spread of covid-19 without the help of communities in the Western, Choiseul and Malaita provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring Papua New Guinea has had a huge surge of covid-19 cases with numbers now over 5000, including dozens of cases in Bougainville.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Commissioner Juanita Matanga said the vast area covered by the western border with PNG was too big for the resources and manpower of the Solomon Islands police.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=PNG+Covid+crisis\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> The Papua New Guinean covid crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/03\/29\/png-on-verge-of-covid-red-zone-warns-deputy-pandemic-chief\/\">PNG on &#8216;verge of covid red zone&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She said the only way authorities could protect people from covid-19 was for people living in the region to stop moving across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Matanga met with communities in the Shortland Islands and surrounding areas last week.<\/p>\n<p>She said police were concerned and while they understood the reasons why people were travelling to Bougainville, people were reminded these were not normal times.<\/p>\n<p>Last week PNG placed a ban on traditional border crossings.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n<style>.pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }<\/style>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2021\/03\/30\/solomon-islands-police-appeal-for-help-to-stop-covid-spread-over-border\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ Pacific Police in Solomon Islands say they cannot successfully secure the western border with Papua New Guinea and stop the spread of covid-19 without the help of communities in the Western, Choiseul and Malaita provinces. Neighbouring Papua New Guinea has had a huge surge of covid-19 cases with numbers now over 5000, including dozens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5588,16078,5101,338,304,5,365,387,12,403,366,368,16079,887],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99021,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99020\/revisions\/99021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}