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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With a defense legal team in place, a federal court in California has given additional time for members of the ASG COVID-19 Task Force — named as defendants in a lawsuit — to file a response. Defendants in the lawsuit filed Apr. 23 this year, are Health director Motusa...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa COVID-19 Task Force revealed during a press conference with members of the media on Tuesday this week that according to the Vaccination Operation update, only 59.3% of the total population has completed one shot of the coronavirus since the campaign...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has given provisional approval to the government’s Repatriation Plan and has agreed to the ASG Coronavirus Task Force’s suggestion of the first repatriation flight in mid January for the estimated 600 American Samoa residents stranded in the U.S...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “The controlling factor” in re-opening air service between Hawaii and American Samoa “will be the saturation of quarantine facilities” in the territory, declared Iulogologo Joseph Pereira, chairman of the ASG coronavirus task force, responding to Samoa News inquiries. At...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government employees making $50,000 or less a year will be entitled to overtime pay for work outside of their usual 40-hours per week for work involving the coronavirus declaration. Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced the “benchmark” overtime pay for COVID-19 during the...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Speaking at the recent ASG coronavirus task force meeting, Gov. Lolo Matalasi requested that the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) and the Education Department (ASDOE) submit their individual plans on providing instructional education for students. Lolo said he...