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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The current surge of the COVID-19 community transmission is projected to peak next week and into early next month, and is expected to slow down in early May, according to Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, head of the COVID Task Force and the territory’s lead Epidemiologist...

![Dr. Aifili J. Tufa gave an update from the DoH side saying that the “omicron variant is very transmissible, [and] moves very quickly” and he joined Talauega in encouraging the public to get vaccinated, boosted and get tested for therapeutic treatment. He also discussed further the projection on the expected “peak” in the surge, using Palau, Guam and Hawaii for comparison, based on a seven-day case calculation rates, which provides the number of cases to be expected per day. Dr. Aifili J. Tufa](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dr_a_tufa_16.jpg?itok=eykLAPfF)