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A passenger on the first repatriation flight was seen standing on her room’s balcony last week on the second floor of the Tradewinds Hotel where returning repats are being quarantined. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga said in a press conference this past Friday that all returning residents...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga — during a Friday press conference at the Governor’s Office conference room — gave an update on the first repatriation flight, which arrived on Feb. 1st, with all 159 passengers now going through the required 14-quarantine at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first repatriated group of American Samoa residents received their first COVID-19 test yesterday after arriving home this past Monday afternoon. This was confirmed by the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Dept. of Heath (DoH) — former Manu’a #1 lawmaker, Vesi...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As television news footage out of Honolulu on the morning of Feb. 1st showed some American Samoa residents at the Honolulu airport heading for check-in for the first repatriation flight to the territory, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga posted a message on the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a statement yesterday, the Health Department reminds the public that all 159 passengers on the first repatriation flight from the US, which arrived yesterday afternoon at Pago Pago International Airport tested negative three-times for COVID-19.
The reminder comes amid...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Director of Health, Motusa Tuileama Nua assured representatives during his confirmation hearing last Thursday that all passengers on the repatriation flight arriving from Hawaii later this afternoon have completed their testing and are safe to enter the territory. All of...
DoH: Stranded residents must be able “to endure up to 24-days” of quarantine in order to travel home
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department physicians will assess the ability of travelers who submit an application for repatriation from the US “to endure up to 24-days” of quarantine including pre-boarding quarantine at a designated hotel in Hawai’i.
This is according to DoH’s response...
Apia, SAMOA — People returning to Samoa on the country's first repatriation flight from the US will have to spend three weeks in quarantine upon their arrival.
The 300 passengers scheduled to return on Friday will be spend 21 days rather than the usual 14 days in such conditions.
The Ministry of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The container vessel, Fesco Askold, with three of its 17 crew members who tested positive for COVID-19, sailed out of the Pago Pago Harbor around 10:30a.m yesterday, enroute back to the US with cargo loaded from American Samoa.
The vessel, which arrived from Samoa on Nov...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) reports the 19 staff placed under controlled isolation a week ago since the 3 reported cases in American Samoa linked to the container ship – Fesco Askold, remain under 14 days quarantine as a health precaution.
They undertook COVID...