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Coronavirus

Code Blue graphic
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With a Fourth Amended Declaration, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has extended for another 30-days the coronavirus state of emergency through June 1, with American Samoa remaining under Code Blue threat level. “The Governor elected to maintain our current posture with regard...
Passengers were "jammed in like sardines"
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — An Auckland woman was "shocked" to find passengers seated closer than two meters together on a recent Air New Zealand flight, describing the lack of adherence to general physical distancing rules as "extraordinary". A spokesperson for Air New Zealand, however, said the...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Speaking at the start of the ASG COVID-19 task force meeting Sunday, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga commended the hard work by the task force and its working group as well as other agencies for providing data and information that resulted in US President Donald Trump...
One of the buildings, or wings, at the Department of Health compound at Fagaalu
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last Friday’s cabinet meeting Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced that the Catholic Church and the Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa will be compensated for the use for their facilities when they were used to quarantine passengers who arrived from...
I don't speak Samoan, I can't spell ‘faavelevas’, and I don’t know the culture; but I do know what an Economy about to collapse looks like. I know people will go hungry, and some already are. I know distress is coming, and desperation has arrived. Forget the lockdown, this is a tourist based...
Screenshot from Hawaii News Now 5 p.m. Friday news with reporter in front of coronavirus graphic
Honolulu, HAWAII — Two new COVID-19 fatalities were reported in Hawaii on Friday, bringing the state’s death toll from the virus to 14. State Health Department officials said both of the patients were Oahu men over age 65. Both of the men also had underlying health conditions, they said....
LBJ Hospital triage tents
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At Sunday’s coronavirus task force meeting, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga pointed out that he “takes seriously” the medical recommendations provided by local physicians on revisions for current and the next local COVID-19 emergency declaration. “But my own personal view of...
The two police officers exiting DHSS office
O le aso Lua ua va’aia ai le i ai o le vasega o Leoleo ina ia fa’amamaluina tulafono e tausisia ai le fa’asa o lo’o fa’amamaluina nei. Ia le so’ona vavalalata i tatou i nofoaga faitele, ia le a’afia ai i tatou i le Coronavirus. Ua va’aia pea le to’atele o le atunuu i lumafale o le DHSS, ae fa’ailoa...
ASG govt logo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa has submitted to the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service the territorial implementation plan and estimates for distribution of the federal stimulus money to qualified local residents, says ASG COVID-19 Task Force chairman Iulogologo...
A crowd gathered at Social Service office under the tents with no social distancing
People crowded under the tents at Social Services in Utulei on Monday morning apparently for Gita relief money. There was no crowd control to enforce two of the most important regulations of the Governor’s Emergency Declaration for the COVID-19 virus — no more than 10 people can gather in one place...

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