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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa needs more beds and quarantine spaces if it is to screen for the Covid-19 coronavirus effectively, says the territory's director of health.
Motusa Tuileama Nua's comments come after a revised travel advisory was released indicating the screening of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has establish the government’s 21-member COVID-19 Task Force, which is to conduct and perform the required work to ensure that the governor and the lieutenant governor “receive comprehensive information and recommendations on the Coronavirus for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerns over the rapid spread the coronavirus, which has reached more than two dozen US states, has resulted in postponement of accreditation visitations for three public high schools while the Health Department works with local public schools “emphasizing proper hand...
WASHINGTON (AP) —Since breaking out of China, the coronavirus has breached the walls of the Vatican. It’s struck the Iranian holy city of Qom and contaminated a nursing home in Seattle.
And around the world, it’s carrying not just sickness and death but also the anxiety and paralysis that can...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Under a new revised Heath Department (DOH travel advisory - dated yesterday - all passengers from and transiting through US states with confirmed coronavirus, or COVID-19, cases will not be required to stay in Hawai’i for 14-days before entering the territory.
The new...
London, ENGLAND — Certain airlines are wasting vast quantities of fuel by flying empty aircraft to various destinations in order to maintain rights to their slots. These flights, nicknamed ‘ghost flights’ are being carried out due to rules around airport slots – something that is especially...
Apia, SAMOA — Beginning March 7, 2020, all travelers entering Samoa must note the following requirements:
A Special Health Declaration Card is required to be filled out by all travelling passengers in-flight or on arrival in to Samoa.
ALL Travellers including returning residents entering Samoa...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaiian Airlines is offering travel assistance waivers to its passengers — including those travelers to and from American Samoa — who hare opting to change travel plans due to the impact of new travel advisories and restrictions implements by governments as the coronavirus (...
Honolulu, HAWAII — With travelers from around the world visiting Hawaii, the state is boosting efforts to sanitize airports amid concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.
“There are 58,000 people or so, on average, that come and go through (Honolulu) airport alone on any given day. That’s a lot of...
Auckland, NEW ZEALDN — Four people are in isolation in Fiji and are being tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health said it had widened its case definition for suspected cases to include anyone with respiratory symptoms who had recently been to a country where the virus had been...