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COVID-19
To the Editor, The Governor, The American Samoa Government, and The Judiciary,
It is with Great Sadness and shame that actions of the Governor and the American Samoan Government have made brave, noble, and courageous individuals cry with sorrow, remorse, and tragedy relating to denying an...
Samoa News photo Wednesday afternoon showing the Health Department’s quarantine facilities behind the Tafuna Community Health Center. As of yesterday, there were only four travelers from Samoa under local special skilled workers special provision completing their required 14-day quarantine...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Director General of Health says the country remains free of Covid-19 so the public shouldn't believe rumors to the contrary. Leausa Dr Take Naseri held his first Covid press conference since March on Tuesday and spent the time highlighting the government's work to prevent the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Los Angeles is reaching out to Samoans and other Pacific Islanders to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. These images are among the graphics adapted by Los Angeles County, and shared with other cities and states, as part of a large public awareness campaign to get the...
EDITOR’S NOTE — [Samoa News has reprinted the following story from RNZ Pacific, as many of the group of Tagata Tu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa, that have written letters to Gov. Lolo M. Moliga asking that a Hawaiian Air repatriation flight be arranged for American Samoan residents to return...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaii has the fastest-growing infection rate in the country, according to several statistical models that try to estimate how many people an infected person will spread the virus to.
While public health experts warn of the limitations of some of these models, they also say other...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa government has issued a “special travel advisory” specifically for travelers from American Samoa entering the independent state, which has called for working “together to minimize the potential for COVID-19 being introduced in Samoa.”
Issued by Samoa Ministry...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Ardern said Auckland, the...
Suva, FIJI — The United Nations has announced Pacific Unite: Saving Lives Together, a first-of-its-kind televised and digitally streamed concert that will call on leaders and citizens across the region to work together and with the rest of the world in the fight against COVID-19.
The concert –...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Police have confirmed that a pastor who defied security guards and forcibly entered the place where his wife was being self-isolated, has been fined $2,000 tala.
The Officer in charge of Samoa’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Auapaau Logoitino Filipo told Samoa Global...