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COVID-19 TESTING
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the three imported positive COVID-19 cases on two flights from Honolulu, the Health Department’s director has made the decision to look at moving up the last COVID-19 test to 24-hours prior to boarding a flight to the territory, says ASG Medicaid Office director...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaiian Airlines has begun pre-clearing guests departing from select U.S. mainland cities to Hawai‘i under a program allowing travelers with a negative COVID-19 test to bypass the airport screening in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian, which launched its Pre-Clear Program at San Francisco...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The University of Hawaiʻi has received nearly $1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) towards developing and evaluating community engagement strategies meant to help increase COVID-19 testing and to better understand the infection patterns among non-Native...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The state of Hawaii's pre-travel testing program will launch on Oct. 15, allowing trans-Pacific travelers to bypass quarantine if they test negative for COVID-19 before arriving.
While the tests for travelers are slated to be available through Walgreens, CVS, Kaiser Permanente...
Honolulu, Hawaii — United Airlines will become the first U.S. airline to offer coronavirus testing for passengers, in time for Hawaii’s pre-travel testing program set to launch in mid-October.
Starting Oct. 15, passengers flying from San Francisco International Airport to Hawaii will be given the...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Pacific people will not be punished for being in New Zealand without a valid visa if their immigration status is revealed during Covid-19 testing, the health minister says.
Hundreds of seasonal workers have been stranded in New Zealand over recent months, some with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency has issued Medical Charter COVID Testing and other travel info for all passengers planning to fly out on the special charter flight of Hawaiian Airlines, set for next week, July 21st, 2020.
It is as follows:
Medical Charter COVID...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has instructed the Health Department and LBJ Medical Center to look at identifying local funds to purchase more COVID-19 test kits while the DoH plans this week to start conducting community-base testing for medical personnel and first...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Authorities in American Samoa are not planning random Covid-19 testing at this stage, even with shipments of test kits and swabs arriving in the territory.
1100 test kits and 1000 swabs arrived over the weekend, increasing the capacity to test for the coronavirus...
![[l-r] Dr. Aifili John Tufa, Papali’i Marion Fitisemanu, Farah Utu, and Dr. Saipale Fuimaono](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doh_officials_3710_2.jpg?itok=2Ql9o4RX "Health Department senior officials [l-r] Dr. Aifili John Tufa, Papali’i Marion Fitisemanu, Farah Utu, and Dr. Saipale Fuimaono in a December 2019 Samoa News file photo. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Criteria for who is to be tested for the deadly coronavirus has already been established and shared with LBJ Medical Center, according to Health Department Epidemiologist Dr. Aifili John Tufa, who points out that American Samoa is a step-ahead with preventive measures to...