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  • PNG: Malaria outbreak at a Manus Island detention center

    Source: http://www.news.com.au/national-news...-1226683972595

    Manus Island on high alert with malaria outbreak as asylum seeker detainees head for makeshift detention centre in PNG

    PARADISE has become Devil's Island with a price tag as tensions grow after a malaria outbreak at the Manus Island detention centre.

    Immigration staff have ordered a code red alert at the facility ahead of an expected new plane load of arrivals, the first to be processed under the so-called PNG solution.

    Health officials claim up to 15 asylum seekers have been hospitalised with malaria in the heavily guarded compound on the isolated palm-fringed island in the Bismarck Sea in PNG's north...
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