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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “experts... are saying that the concept of herd immunity, is no longer a concept with the omicron variant” of the coronavirus, says Dr. Aifli John Tufa, the territory’s lead Epidemiologist with the Health Department.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Radio New Zealand is reporting the situation at the American Samoa Covid-19 quarantine sites housing travellers from Honolulu is getting testy after they were told they won't be released until Friday, regardless of their COVID test results.
Those who tested negative were...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One new, but minor change has been made to the requirement for full vaccination for travelers entering American Samoa, through Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s latest COVID-19 Emergency Declaration, dated Feb. 4 and released yesterday by the Governor’s Office.
The minor change...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Quarantine days for the more than 200 passengers on board the Jan. 27 flight from Honolulu have been pushed forward as more positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed, including several “historical positives” and four members of the quarantine staff.
As of late Friday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Quarantine days for the more than 200 passengers on board the Jan. 27 flight from Honolulu have been pushed forward as more positive COVID-19 cases were confirmed, including several “historical positives” and four members of the quarantine staff. Although no firm date...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Another new COVID-19 case has taken Tonga's tally of cases back to five.
This comes after one of the five cases identified on Tuesday returned a negative test.
Matangi Tonga reports the new case, who is fully vaccinated, was a co-worker of one of the primary cases who tested...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga's new Prime Minister believes the "resilience" and "strength" of people will get the Kingdom through the impacts of the volcanic eruption, tsunami and now Covid-19.
Earlier this week, the prime minister together with Minister of Health Saia Piukala said that one of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Testimony by LBJ Medical Cemter officials during a House Health committee hearing this week concerns many faipule. LBJ issues include the ongoing problem of shortage of nurses and that LBJ is not ready to deal with COVID-19 cases.
LBJ Hospital CEO Faumuina John Faumuina’...
The Samoa government has confirmed another positive case following the latest round of tests, a frontline nurse in isolation.
Samoa has 31 positive Covid-19 cases in MIQ, a majority who were passengers on a flight from Brisbane.
The latest COVID-19 case is a local nurse who was working in a...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — The Kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm on Wednesday.
Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku and Minister of Health Dr Saia Piukala held a media conference on Tuesday night to announce the news.
They confirmed that two cases of Covid-19...