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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is planning two flights each month through December as the territory moves to reopen commercial air service between Honolulu an Pago Pago, with the hope of more flights — all depending on the increase in the local COVID-19 vaccination rate and the rise in...
screenshot from ASG Registry website
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG has released the “Safe Travels American Samoa” quick reference guide with a link  — as shown in this screen-shot — on it’s homepage  saying that the government is actively monitoring travelers for public health and safety. And it focused on required checks points for...
College bound students at Pago airport
Local students heading for college in the U.S pose for a Samoa News photo at Pago Pago International Airport before boarding the medical charter flight last week Thursday to Honolulu. With the commercial flight scheduled for August now moved to September, the COVID Task Force is concerned about the...
Task Force chairman, Lt Governor Talauega, getting vaccinated
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Over 50% of the passengers from the first two Medicaid- repatriation flights have not paid their fares. This was confirmed by the Task Force chairman, Lt Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale during a press conference with the local media last week. When asked about the cost...
Pago Pago International Airport sign
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has not suspended flights into American Samoa for refueling and for temporary rest, “instead we have tightened our protocols”, says ASG Coronavirus Task Force chairman Iulogologo Joseph Pereria. Under the protocols approved by the governor,...
OIA Director Nikolao Pula with Governor Lolo Moliga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has not yet made a decision on a repatriation flight for next month, to bring home the estimated 600 local residents stranded across the U.S.,  he has asked the ASG Coronavirus Task Force “to look at December as the possible month to begin...
Hawaiian Airlines plane on HNL Reef Runway
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hawaiian Airlines flights between Honolulu and Pago Pago are suspended for an additional 30-days, through Dec. 30th, according to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s coronavirus Tenth Amended Declaration, which is effective Nov. 1st to Nov. 30th, as American Samoa — without a...
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sai'lele Malielegaoi
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa government has announced it is extending the state of emergency orders on the coronavirus pandemic, effectively pushing the restrictions into its eighth month. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sai'lele Malielegaoi, made the announcement during his weekly TV3Samoa briefing Wednesday...
Brigitte Moala and her 85-year-old father, Noaese Taeatafa with family
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaii News Now (HNN) has interviewed some of the hundreds of American Samoans stranded in Hawaii and also have spoken with Epifania Rapozo, just before she and her two children were able to depart the territory after paying their own way on Monday's medical flight. The Hawaii...
Dear Governor Lolo, Samoa muamua le Atua. We have that on our American Samoa Government seal and we have always prized ourselves as God fearing people and people of faith. We have always prized ourselves also as loving people. But the past few months since the outbreak of COVID-19 things have been...

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