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Apia, SAMOA — The 272 passengers who arrived from New Zealand on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 all tested negative for COVID. This repatriation flight was scheduled to arrive last month but was postponed due to the nationwide lockdown following the flight on Jan. 19, 2022. All 272 passengers were swabbed...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The three new nominees to the Board of Directors of the American Samoa Power Authority are cleared to serve on the board overseeing the territory’s water, electricity, waste disposal and sewer services provider. The House of Representatives on Friday approved by...
 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Fiji's acting prime minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Suva, FIJI — The United States insists it is a Pacific nation and has unveiled a raft of new strategies to better engage with other nations in the Region. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the first Secretary of State to visit Fiji in nearly 37 years. During his historic visit,...
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has been readmitted to the Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital. Newsline Samoa reports the former Prime Minister was admitted for observation on Tuesday evening. He had been up and about and attended church on Sunday and later hosted...
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Apia, SAMOA — Following the 7th round of the testing scheduled on Friday Feb. 4; for all passengers on flight QF 115 and all frontline workers in Samoa that serviced the flight, are all in quarantine, with no new positive cases dentified. There remains no evidence of community transmission,...
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Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The Governments of Samoa and Aotearoa New Zealand welcome 2022 commemorating the 60 years of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. This year, 2022 also marks the 60th anniversary of Samoa’s independence from New Zealand and the signing of the Treaty of...
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Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Another new COVID-19 case has taken Tonga's tally of cases back to five. This comes after one of the five cases identified on Tuesday returned a negative test. Matangi Tonga reports the new case, who is fully vaccinated, was a co-worker of one of the primary cases who tested...
Tahiti donation vessel for Tonga relief
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga's new Prime Minister believes the "resilience" and "strength" of people will get the Kingdom through the impacts of the volcanic eruption, tsunami and now Covid-19. Earlier this week, the prime minister together with Minister of Health Saia Piukala said that one of the...
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The Samoa government has confirmed another positive case following the latest round of tests, a frontline nurse in isolation. Samoa has 31 positive Covid-19 cases in MIQ, a majority who were passengers on a flight from Brisbane. The latest COVID-19 case is a local nurse who was working in a...
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Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Observer reported yesterday that police are probing a quarantine breach by a nurse and a driver. Late Monday afternoon, Samoa News received the following statement from Samoa’s National Emergency Operation Center: "On Saturday afternoon, 29 January, the Disaster Finance Team...

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