B2 VARIANT
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an advisory distributed over the weekend, the Health Department announced the presence in American Samoa of the new COVID-19 omicron variant, BA.2, detected on some of the passengers on the Mar. 31st flight from Honolulu.
DoH first presented the information during...

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