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210820TOTAVUN SAYS COVID 19 STILL GOING UP
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The Bougainville Health Secretary and Deputy State of Emergency Controller, CLEMENT TOTAVUN says Bougainville should maintain protocols like social distancing and washing off hands frequently to avoid contracting Covid-19.
He said this is because Bougainville is not immune to covid-19 as the number of dead from Corona virus rises all over the world.
MR.TOTAVUN said as of yesterday the number of cases in Papua New Guinea has risen to 359 and three deaths so far.
He said that the positive case reported on Bougainville remains asymptomatic with the person not showing any signs of sickness so far.
MR. TOTAVUN said that the person has been isolated from the community.

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210820 STATE OF EMERGENCY TILL SEPTEMBER 4
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The State of Emergency Controller on Bougainville and Chief of Bougainville Police Service, DCP FRANCIS TOKURA says that the new State of Emergency Declared by the Bougainville Executive Council on August 14th will lapse on September 4th, 2020.
He said that all orders declared under the first two declarations first on March 23rd and 11th June, 2020 will still apply within the 21 day BEC State of Emergency dated 14th August, 2020 to September 4th, 2020.

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200820 IMMUNIZATION BEGINS ON BOUGAINVILLE
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The Health Secretary for the Department of Health on Bougainville and Deputy State of Emergency Controller, CLEMENT TOTAVUN is calling on all parents of Children to bring their children for immunization.
In his health brief this afternoon, MR. TOTAVUN said that officers from his department have started immunization program throughout the region and wants all parents to bring their children to the nearest clinic once the team is in your area.
MR TOTAVUN said that the immunization program is for children ages ranging from zero to five years for MEASLES,POLIO, RUBELA and those vaccines that our health Department has been using in the last 40 years or so.
He said people were spreading rumours that these vaccines are for covid-19 and this is not true as Covid-19 has no vaccine.
The Secretary said these rumours have made and many parents are not bringing their children for vaccination.

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190820 VOTING STARTS LATE
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Voters for Bougainvilleans In Bougainville at the BEL ISI park started very late today because officials had to sort the 33 constituencies ballot papers for the voters to vote.
When voting finally started voters for South Bougainville constituencies could not vote because ballot papers for the South Regional Women’s seat was not available.
Because of this hiccup South Bougainvilleans did not cast their votes today for their choice of leaders today.
The queue at the BEL ISI polling booth started just before 8am this morning and most voters had to stand in the sun until they voted today whilst there are two more voting days for BIB tomorrow and Friday.

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180820 BOUGAINVILLE STATE OF EMERGENCY GAZETTED
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The Bougainville Executive Council last Friday, 14th August resolved to declare a new State of Emergency for the next 21 days.
This was done under Section 200 of the Bougainville constitution on Declaring emergency on Bougainville.
The new Emergency will end on September 5th, 2020.
Chief of Bougainville Police Service, FRANCIS TOKURA will continue as the Bougainville Emergency controller.
Emergency Controller, FRANCIS TOKURA shall continue to issue relevant Emergency Orders under this declaration.
The SOE controller did not make this announcement in his previous SOE updates because the SOE was still to be gazetted in the Bougainville Gazette.
This SOE was gazetted on Monday 17th August under Gazette number 55 of 2020.

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140820 STATE OF EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTARY ORDER ELEVEN OUT
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The Bougainville State of Emergency controller and chief of Bougainville Police Service, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER POLICE, FRANCIS TOKURA this afternoon issued Supplementary Order Eleven to be actioned or implemented immediately.
Supplementary Order 8 has been revoked and Supplementary Order 9 reviewed and the following orders takes effect immediately.
A) It is now compulsory that all intending travellers into Bougainville who show and are confirmed by a medical practitioner to have influenza like illness and severe acute respiratory infection shall undergo a Genexpert or Polymerase chain reaction test, 48 hours to 72 hours before departing their port of origin.
B) It is compulsory that all intending travellers into Bougainville are to obtain a quarantine medical clearance certificate 48 to 72 hours before departing their port of origin.
C) The quarantine medical clearance certificate shall be surrendered upon check in time, with the airline carrier, with an approval letter from the Bougainville State of Emergency Controller.
D) A passenger who fails to produce these mandatory documents be immediately denied check-in and boarding.
E) Travellers will undergo a mandatory clinical/medical examination and sample collection at the port of arrival.

All travellers arriving in Buka will undergo 14 days quarantine period at their own costs.
And all international travellers are required to undergo a full 14 days quarantine at a designated hotel in Port Moresby.

And a valid medical clearance certificate shall be produced upon entry into Bougainville.

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100820TOKURA ISSUES SUPPLEMENTARY ORDER ON PMV OPERATORS AND PRIVATE VEHICLES.
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CHIEF of the Bougainville Police Service and Bougainville Emergency Controller Francis Tokura has issued orders for immediate implementation for restrictions of movement of persons within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
The Supplementary Order Number 10 amends the following orders previously issued on Order 2 of Emergency Order Number 4 on PMV operators and private vehicles with additional requirements.

All PMV operators are to ensure their drivers and crew maintain a daily record of all their passengers, this is to enable a smooth implementation of contact tracing.
PMV operators are also required to ensure adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) are obtained and supplied to their drivers and crews and also ensure face masks and gloves are used at all times when operating and conveying passengers.
PMV drivers and crew are also urged to ensure they observe strict hygiene measures with no smoking and chewing of betel nut while conveying the passengers in compliance with this order and in accordance with the Motor Traffic Regulations.
Meanwhile, Order Number 29 of Emergency Order Number Two on restrictions of inter-constituency movements is also amended.
All inter-constituency and inter-district movements by citizens is restricted for 4 days from Sunday 9th of August to Wednesday 12th of August except for essential travels.
This is to ensure necessary Contact Tracing process in Bougainville is fast tracked.
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080820TOKURA APPEALS TO PEOPLE NOT TO PANIC
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The State of Emergency Controller on Bougainville, Deputy Commissioner Police and chief of Bougainville Service, FRANCIS TOKURA has appealed to the people of Bougainville to remain calm and stay at home at this time.
He made this appeal live on New Dawn FM today after Port Moresby reported last night that out of the 25 cases announced 24 were from NCD and one was from Bougainville.
And this has brought the total of cases reported in PNG to 188 and 3 deaths.
According to the Controller, the person travelled to Bougainville from Port Moresby and by now should be at his home in Central Bougainville.
He said because the Covid-19 response team is carrying out contact tracing there will not be any movement of people between the towns of Buka, Arawa and Buin for the next few days.
The controller said that the election campaign will continue as this one case should not disturb the election process.
MR TOKURA said his team were trying their best to make sure no-more case is detected on Bougainville.
Earlier, the ABG member for Tsitalato and Presidential candidate, FIDELIS SEMOSO and JAMES TANIS also appealed to the people for calm on New Dawn FM.
DR JOE VILOSI from the Arawa Hospital also called and said that he was disappointed to hear this news and called on the Covid 19 secretariat to beef its activity of monitoring the movement of people into Bougainville.
Some came to the radio station from as far as Arawa and wanted to confirm the story.
MR. SEMOSO wanted all gatherings and campaigns in Tsitalato to stop immediately.
He questioned why the Covid 19 response and the surveillance team at the Buka airport allowed this one to pass through without detection.
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060820TOKURA TO ISSUE GUIDELINES FOR COVID-19 TESTING IN THE REGION.
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THE Bougainville SOE Controller Francis Tokura has announced that there will be an order issued soon from his office giving guidelines to health authorities and health response units on the conduct of the testing for COVID-19 throughout the three regions.
The collection of the 3000 tests in the three regions North, Central and South will be carried out to find out if Bougainville have any cases of COVID-19 or not.
Mr. Tokura said people will be informed on the requirements they will have to follow to help the health authorities and response units carry out the testing.
He said he understands that many Bougainvilleans are not happy with the restrictions that are being put in place but asked Bougainvilleans to be patient.
The Controller clarified that all the orders that are being issued are for the good of the people, to ensure Bougainville is free from COVID-19.
Mr. Tokura advised Bougainvilleans to plan their travels so that they can travel after the 14 days lock down.
He said people will be advised if there will be an extension of the lockdown.
Everyone are urged to remain vigilant, comply with the basic preventive measures & SOE orders and take responsibility of their personal health and hygiene.
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310720 SERVICES AND BUSINESSES IN BOUGAINVILLE TO OPERATE AS NORMAL.
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THE ABG Health Secretary and Bougainville State of Emergency Deputy Controller Clement Totavun has announced today that all essential services and businesses in the region are to operate as normal whereas flights into the region are restricted for two weeks starting today.
The Deputy Controller told New Dawn FM that the banning of the flights into the region is a major preventive measure the Bougainville SOE Authority is taking to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 into the region in the next fourteen- days.
Mr. Totavun clarified that the only flights coming into the region are only freight and medivac, other non-essential flight are banned.
The Deputy Controller asked Bougainvilleans to take all preventive measures very seriously to ensure the deadly virus does not spread into Bougainville.
He said Bougainville is about to conduct its 2020 ABG election and asked everyone remains vigilant and obey emergency orders to prevent any spread of COVID-19 in the region which can affect the Bougainville population.
Mr. Totavun appeals to restrict their movements within the region and to other parts of the country and to ensure they plan their travels properly to avoid getting stranded elsewhere especially during this time now that the number of COVID-19 cases has increased in the country.
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