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COVID-19

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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department is urging parents and/or legal guardians of students attending all schools in the territory to ensure their children have received their immunization shots — as required — with plans to starting visiting schools next months to check. “No one will be...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Health plans to send test samples to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to test for the variant of the two new imported COVID-19 positive cases from the Sept. 27th flight from Honolulu. The two positive cases, were announced in an...
 Dr. Aifili John Tufa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With American Samoa’s strict protocol for travelers entering Pago Pago, Health Department officials said the territory is able to contain in quarantine and then isolation the COVID-19 cases after three travelers from the last two flights from Honolulu tested positive....
Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following a decision by Samoa’s health authorities, inter-Samoa flights are temporarily suspended again, while the local resident who arrived on the Sept. 13th flight from Honolulu and tested positive of COVID-19 has been re-tested — under new protocols — and the result...
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College Station, TEXAS — With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of COVID-19 on the body and brain. These findings are raising concerns about the long-term impacts that the coronavirus...
Samoa Director General of Health Leausa Dr Take Naseri
Apia, SAMOA — A total of 19,567 Covid shots were administered during Samoa's two day mass vaccination campaign but its below what officials hoped to achieve. The Director General of Health Leausa Dr Take Naseri said preliminary figures indicate that 12,228 received their first dose and 7,339 are...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With its fall 2021 semester now underway, the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has joined the forefront of the government’s “Protect As One” movement by providing incentives for both its students and staff to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations if they have not...
[l-r] Dr. Dr Aifili Tufa, Dr. Francine Amoa, and Dr. Fiona Trial
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —The 259 passengers who arrived on the Sept. 13th flight from Honolulu and are currently in quarantine, are set to be released this weekend, but after release from quarantine they will be required to remain at home for two days and abide with specific protocols, according...
A large screen displayed information on the local resident who tested positive for COVID-19
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The local resident, who was a passenger on the Sept. 13th flight from Honolulu and tested positive of COVID-19, is in isolation for two weeks, while all ASG employees who worked that flight are in quarantine, as the government monitors the situation, with commercial...
Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale (left) and Motusa Tuileama Nua
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A local resident who returned to American Samoa when commercial air service between Honolulu and Pago Pago re-opened on Sept. 13th has tested positive for COVID-19, making it the first local case, but American Samoa remains under Code-Blue threat level, meaning COVID-...

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