3rd repat flight
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Repatriated passengers were strangers at the outset but they bonded and become “family”, leaning on each other and helping along the way, as they entered quarantine in Honolulu. There the bond was strengthened while waiting for confirmation from ASG for whether they...
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — At the latest Task Force meeting held at the Department of Homeland Security Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Tafuna yesterday, Task Force Chair Lt. Governor Talauega E.V. Ale noted that the Task Force has members both in the government and private sectors and in the...

![Staci Iafeta (left) and her husband, Siave Iafeta (right) were among the 233 passengers of the third repatriation flight last month from Honolulu. They posed for a photo last Friday morning during the Tagata Tutu Fa’atasi Alliance of American Samoa “Thank You Wave” at Utulei. Mr. Iafeta is the passenger who tested positive for COVID-19 ‘non contagious’ while he was in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel. He and his family were removed to a different quarantine center and spent 14 days there before being released last week. [photo: FS] Staci Iafeta (left) and her husband, Siave Iafeta (right)](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/iafeta_couple_6091.jpg?itok=sXv-vFAf)
