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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Is it safe to hold a full-fledged 2022 Flag Day Celebration amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was the focus of Sen. Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono’s question during the Senate session on Wednesday, after Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale at last week’s cabinet meeting announced...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Six passengers who arrived on the Jan. 6 flight from Honolulu tested positive of COVID-19, according to ASG officials who noted that Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga was briefed yesterday morning by the Health Department’s medical team on the latest imported (border) cases.
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Honolulu, HAWAII — Cool Stuff is sure Congresswoman Uifa'tali Aumua Amata Coleman Radewaggen has your back... making sure the territory gets its share of home COVID test kits in a prompt manner.
Here is what to expect as these helpful kits could become critical to the territory's re-opening. ...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The year, “2022 is going to be a year of action and it’s going to be a year of a lot of activities,” declared Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale during his remarks at last Friday’s cabinet meeting. “We have established the infrastructure to do this in 2021, now we are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendation for when many people can receive a booster shot, shortening the interval from 6 months to 5 months for people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
In a media release...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, the CDC is shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to 5 days, if asymptomatic, followed by 5 days of wearing a mask when around others,” the Centers for...
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Rest assured, kids of all ages: Santa’s coming this Christmas Eve, and a second holiday with COVID-19 won’t stop him.
That’s the word from the joint U.S.-Canadian military operation that for 66 years has been tracking Jolly Old St. Nicholas on his global...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than 3,000 first-doses were administered to children ages five to 11 years old during three weeks of the government’s “Protect AS One” mass vaccination drive, which focused on this age group, as American Samoa aims for a 90% or more vaccination rate.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — THE Health Department says it received over the weekend a new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 years old, and is providing COVID-19 vaccines Monday through Thursday this week.
DoH suspended late last week vaccination shots for this age group due to...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The Minister for Pacific Peoples is encouraging anyone who has had their second Covid-19 dose for six months, to book in a booster shot.
Aupito Su'a William Sio said while community teams have had a massive year, 2022 will be a challenge too.
Aupito said the Government is...