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COVID-19

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Apia, SAMOA — The week between December 25 and 31, saw 44 cases of COVID-19 reported in Samoa. The Ministry of Health's surveillance report — dated 1 January but released on Monday — shows the 44 cases were reported over the previous seven days, but none of them from the border. It takes the...
samoa motootua national hospital
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that there are currently two children being isolated in the children's ward at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital in Motootua as they were tested positive for COVID-19. This was confirmed by hospital staff members as well as a security who all did not...
Aiono Dr Alec Ekeroma
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa health chief has shot down media reports the country is "considering" border restrictions due to a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. Director-general of health Aiono Dr Alec Ekeroma confirmed to RNZ Pacific that recent media reports suggesting that border restrictions...
Director General of Health Aiono Dr. Alec Ekeroma
Apia, SAMOA — With several recent COVID cases reported in the independent state, Samoa's health boss says the Ministry of Health will resort to carrying out COVID-19 tests at the airport, should the number of positive cases become concerning. Director General of Health Aiono Dr. Alec Ekeroma told...
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Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s government has issued a public health notice urging people to get a booster vaccination against COVID-19, as New Zealand experiences its fifth wave of the virus. In a notice signed by the country’s director of general health, Dr Aiono Alec Ekeroma, Samoa’s Ministry of Health...
Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga says that lessons and insights of the COVID-19 global pandemic provided American Samoa with new challenges to address and overcome. The governor’s statement is included in the 2022 COVID-19 Task Force Operation financial report, which summarized...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The federally funded Medicaid program covered more than $4.7 million in expenditures for American Samoa during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some $3 million of allowable costs payable to ASG’s Health Department, according to the 2022 COVID-19 Task Force Operations...
Assistant Attorney General Lynne Blankenbeke
  Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Assistant Attorney General, Lynne Blankenbeker, who is also the acting director for the Consumer Protection Bureau of the Department of Legal Affairs told senators that there were no “price gouging” prosecutions during the COVID-19 Emergency Declarations. Blankenbeker...
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Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that the Ministry of Health is advising it has recorded 14 new positive cases of COVID-19 in its latest weekly surveillance released this past Friday. According to details of the report published in the Observer, the coronavirus positive test results...
Dr. Elizabeth Lauvao
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Health (DoH) is confident that the current COVID-19 vaccines and treatments still work for all infections from Omicron variants and sub-variants, including the new XBB.1.5 also known as Kraken. The DoH has already sent samples overseas for testing to...

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