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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Part of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) update, during Monday’s virtual news conference on federal support and assistance for the territory during the COVID-19 community surge included a look at the process involved when a person tests positive and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to a media release from the Department of Homeland Security, dated Mar. 24, 2022, and issued in response to a video circulating on social media by an inmate and resident of the Tafuna [Territorial] Correctional Facility (TCF), the COVID-19 Task Force has...
State College, PENNSYLVANIA — Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no reason for why he was so opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Many families in home quarantine are raising a lot of questions about the home isolation process and the complicated issues they’re facing. And now with the first death from the deadly disease reported, complete instructions are more important than ever.
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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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Speaking at Monday’s virtual news conference, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale revealed that the government is working on a plan to provide “some sort of benefit” to workers — especially those in the private sector — impacted when businesses were closed down due to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Posting on Facebook an inmate serving a life sentence inside the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) is seen pleading for help after he tested positive for COVID-19 but has not received any medical treatment — and a video of the live feed is circulating on social...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 in the community.
There are 262 confirmed Covid-19 cases, 15 of which are imported cases of passengers on the repatriation flight from New Zealand in early...
Neil’s ACE Home Center workers, with facial masks working from behind plexiglas panels while serving customers inside the store on Mar. 14. Social distancing, facial masks and sanitizing are very much a part of the ACE shopping experience — taking care of each other. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the community surge of COVID-19 continues — now exceeding 1,500 overall positives through Mar. 20 — the COVID-19 Task Force is requiring travelers on the Mar. 31 flight from Honolulu to go through supervised quarantine upon arrival in the territory, Lt. Gov. Talauega...