COVID-19
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan government has made some significant changes to the State of Emergency Orders for the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cabinet has decided that supermarkets can be open on Sundays from 3pm till 10pm.
They have also been allowed to open from 6am till 10pm from Monday to Saturday each week...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Distribution Task Force has identified four sites that will be used for administering the COVID-19 vaccine, once the vaccination moves to the general public and the Health Department plans to announce when that will occur.
Additionally, individuals interested in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even before the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the second vaccine by Moderna Inc. to fight against the coronavirus, the federal government has already allocated more than 2,000 dose of the Moderna vaccine for American Samoa expected to arrive by the end...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A crewmember on a container ship in port in American Samoa tested positive for Covid-19.
The vessel, Coral Islander, arrived Friday and the Department of Health team boarded to carry out coronavirus tests for the crew.
One of the 20 crew members yielded a positive...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the FDA last Friday issued an emergency use of the second-vaccine, developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health, the territory’s first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine arrived safely last Saturday on the weekly cargo flight.
Moderna has about 5.9 million...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Getting healthcare workers and first responders vaccinated within a certain timeframe with the first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine arriving tomorrow, will depend on whether the minus 70 Celsius temperature is maintained throughout the shipping process from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Even before the COVID-19 vaccine arrives on island this weekend, questions are already being raised as to whether an individual — especially first responders — can opt out from getting the new vaccine, manufactured by Pfizer Inc. There are also questions of whether the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer Inc., the start of repatriation flights — to bring home an estimated 600 American Samoa residents stranded in the US — is being pushed back to February — giving ASG time to reconfigure local entry...
Apia, SAMOA — Vaccinating Samoa against COVID-19 is projected to cost nearly US$9 million (T$22.8 million), and save Samoa from an estimated 4,050 hospitalisations and 385 deaths should an uncontrolled outbreak of the virus occur.
The estimate comes from the Asian Development Bank’s latest policy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department estimates that close to 1,800 first responders, including healthcare workers will be the first local residents to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, with the first shipment to arrive this Saturday on the weekly cargo flight.
This is according to health...