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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s new COVID-19 Emergency Declaration, effective yesterday, eases some restrictions on public gatherings and allows in-person classroom instruction with exemptions.
Valid through May 28, the new declaration modifies several COVID-19 restrictions...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Manu’a island group is no longer COVID-free, after the Health Department recorded six COVID-19 cases at Faleasao village on Ta’u island. And the positive cases prompted the local Education Department to issue a notice that schools on Ta’u island return to virtual...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has recorded a new COVID-19 related death bringing American Samoa’s total cumulative mortality to 25, says LBJ’s acting chief of staff Dr. Akapusi Ledua, during yesterday’s COVID-19 Task Force virtual news conference.
Dr. Ledua summarized that the new...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Planning a Samoan wedding during a worldwide pandemic is not for the weak.
After being together since university, ours was the wedding everyone had been waiting for.
So when the venue was found and the date set last year, plans were quickly made and names for the bridal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has recorded one new COVID-19 related death, bringing the total number of fatalities to 24 since the first death was reported late last month, according to officials who participated in Friday’s COVID-19 Task Force daily briefing.
LBJ reported during...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hourly employees at StarKist Samoa — including workers who tested COVID-19 positive — are getting extra financial assistance in their paychecks this week, as well as cases of tuna, according to some cannery workers and/or their relatives.
Samoa News was informed by the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s fatalities relating to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic continue to climb slowly and have reached total cumulative mortality of 23 coronavirus related death, according to the LBJ Medical Center presentation at Tuesday’s COVID-19 Task Force briefing from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Several LBJ Tropical Medical Center nurses say they have been placed on leave without pay after they failed to comply with the Governor’s mandate for all first responders and health workers to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 — including the booster shot.
Some nurses...
Special choir from the Seventh-day Adventist Church American Samoa sang hymns at yesterday’s 2022 Flag Day ceremony at Malae o le Talu at Fagatogo, during the very scaled down event due to community spread of COVID. This is the 3rd year Flag Day has been scaled back during the pandemic. [photo:...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The much scaled-back 2022 Flag Day ceremony, under the theme “O Oe ma Lou Fa’avae” - “You and Your Constitution” - is a one-day event at the Malae o le Talu at Fagatogo, Monday, April 18, marking 122 years since American Samoa became a U.S territory.
Flag Day is marked...