Papua New Guinea bans flights from India after accusing it of Covid test ‘deception’

PNG says India allowed passengers infected with Covid to board a flight to Port Moresby

Papua New Guinea has banned all repatriation flights from India, after accusing the country's high commission of a deliberate deception" that resulted in passengers infected with Covid-19 arriving in the country.

India must respect Papua New Guinea as a sovereign nation, and not participate in actions involving unscrupulous people to violate our laws and undermine public health and safety measures," PNG's police commissioner, David Manning, said in a statement.