Up to 3,000 affected in PNG cholera outbreak

The cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea has now affected almost 3,000 people.

The PNG Health Department believes this latest outbreak has been sparked by unhygienic conditions in coastal villages and have appealed to affected communities to clean their homes, safely discard rubbish, boil drinking water and improve hand hygiene.

Restrictions are still in place for travel between PNG and Australia's Torres Strait Islands.

Enoch Posanai, from the PNG Health Department says while they can cofirm 300 deaths from Cholera.... that figure may be much higher.

"I think the challenge is out in villages or remote areas where access to health services may be difficult and...especially where there is isolated communities and so on and that's a great challenge to us," he said.