West New Britain (WNB) has recorded 18 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, bringing the province’s total confirmed cases to 31 and Papua New Guinea’s total to 630.
The new cases in WNB are all from Talasea District with youngest being 4 years old and the oldest at 70 years of age. There are 14 females and four males.
Five of the new cases have symptoms such as fever, cough, headache, chills and sore throat at the time of testing whilst 13 do not have COVID-19 symptoms. Ten had contact with previously-identified positive cases.
The rapid response team continues with contract tracing.
To date, 16 of the 22 provinces in the country have confirmed cases of COVID-19. The distribution of the cases is as follows:
| Provinces | Confirmed Cases |
| NCD | 353 |
| Western Province | 204 |
| West New Britain | 31 |
| Eastern Highlands | 13 |
| Central | 7 |
| Morobe | 6 |
| East Sepik | 3 |
| Enga | 2 |
| East New Britain | 2 |
| Milne Bay | 2 |
| New Ireland | 2 |
| West Sepik | 1 |
| Southern Highlands | 1 |
| AROB | 1 |
| Hela Province | 1 |
| Western Highlands | 1 |
| TOTAL | 630 |
Globally, the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 has reached 57,882,018, including 604,943 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll is 1,377,395; of which 9,237 were reported in the last 24 hours.