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Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — More Pasifika teenagers in Aotearoa New Zealand are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 than teenagers in other ethnic groups.
The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show 15 percent of Pasifika 12-to-19 year olds are fully vaccinated, compared with eight percent of...
SAMOA'S FOREIGN DEBT REACHES BILLION TALA MARK
Samoa's foreign debt reached the billion tala mark late last year according to a report.
The Samoa Observer newspaper reports the Chinese government is the biggest debtor with loans to Samoa worth more than $US160 million.
That's more than the...

![The chair of the Pasifika GP Network, Dr Api Talemaitoga, acknowledges the success of Pacific communities' organizing their own local vaccination events — with families being vaccinated together. "I was at the Samoan vaccination event over the weekend, and you see the cars coming up, mum and dad and two or three kids over 12 sitting in the back getting vaccinated as well. [photo: RNZ] Pacific islanders showing off their vax](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/pacific_youth_vax.jpg?itok=0Dfm2QLK)
![The Central Bank of Samoa, in the capital Apia. [photo: RNZI/ Koroi Hawkins] The Central Bank of Samoa, in the capital Apia. [photo: RNZI/ Koroi Hawkins]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Samoa%20Central%20Bankweb.jpg?itok=w7KSaqmS)