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Dr. Elizabeth Lauvao
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three passengers onboard Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu last week Thursday night and two travelers on the MV Lady Naomi from Samoa last Thursday morning, tested COVID-19 positive and were place in isolation, in accordance with local protocol. The Dept. of Health...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s COVID-19 Situational Report for May 9, shows another COVID-19 related death recorded by LBJ Medical Center, with the fatalities relating to the deadly virus now totaling 30 individuals.  No other information was available about the new fatality,...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department and COVID-19 Task Force’s focus now has moved to controlling the community spread of the coronavirus and making sure that people of Manu’a are tested and treated, says Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, during Monday’s virus task force news conference...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The community spread of COVID-19 on Ta’u island in Manu’a has increased to 14 cases, with 13 positives at Faleasao village and one at Ta’u, according to the American Samoa COVID-19 Situational Report dated Apr. 29. And in a separate health advisory released over the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has recorded one new COVID-19 related death, bringing the total number of fatalities to 24 since the first death was reported late last month, according to officials who participated in Friday’s COVID-19 Task Force daily briefing. LBJ reported during...
Dr. Akapusi Ledua
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center recorded a new COVID-19 related death on Wednesday and the deceased is  a 74-year old male, according to officials who attended yesterday’s COVID-19 Task Force daily briefing from the Emergency Operations Center. The new fatality was announced by LBJ...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a special address delivered late morning on Wednesday in Samoan on KVZK-TV and streamed online, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga shared the sad news of the first COVID-19 related death in American Samoa since the community spread of the deadly virus began on Feb. 21. The...
 Dr. Aifili J. Tufa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The current surge of the COVID-19 community transmission is projected to peak next week and into early next month, and is expected to slow down in early May, according to Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, head of the COVID Task Force and the territory’s lead Epidemiologist...
People not social distancing and some not wearing a mask
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There are growing concerns from members of the community that there are people who test positive for COVID-19 and their family members are not following home quarantine restrictions and isolation orders. Several reports from the public state that some of these people are...
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Apia, SAMOA — COVID-19 numbers are climbing quickly in Samoa. Health officials have now indentified 45 cases of community transmission of coronavirus. The National Emergency Operations Committee said 34 new positive cases were confirmed last night after the announcement by Prime Minister Fiame...

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