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Coronavirus

The USS Theodore Roosevelt
Hagåtña, GUAM — A 24 year-old Samoan sailor serving on board the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has tested positive for Covid-19. Samoa Observer reports the aviation structural mechanic tested positive April 15, just two days after his roommate were diagnosed with the virus. The young...
Hawaiian Airlines logo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has, again, requested and Hawaiian Airlines is, again, granting the suspension of flights between Honolulu and American Samoa for another 30-days as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise in Hawaii and other states. The governor’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Face masks made with the same colorful prints used for aloha shirts — known as “Hawaiian shirts” elsewhere in the United States — are the latest fashion trend in Hawaii as islanders try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Disposable surgical masks are in short...
amoa Environmental Protection Agency employee decorating for a scaled-down Flag Day celebration
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Compared to previous years with many festivities including fautasi races, this year’s Flag Day ceremony set for Friday morning Apr. 17th, will be a very scaled back, small event marking the 120 years since American Samoa became part of the United States family. Speaking...
Customs personnel decorating for Flag Day across from the tank farm.
This Samoa News photo taken after 6:30a.m yesterday shows personnel from ASG Customs Division putting up decorations to beautify the territory for the much-scaled down 2020 Flag Day ceremony at the Fagatogo Malae tomorrow. ASG agencies on the Island Wide Clean Committee were assigned to various...
United States Capitol Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Human and Social Service Department will start processing today, Apr. 15th, subsidy payments for all daycare providers in the territory, after approval was given by the agency’s federal grantor, according to director Muavaefa’atasi John Suisala at last Sunday’s ASG...
The main bus station in Apia.
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Cabinet has eased some of its state of emergency lockdown restrictions including reopening inter-island travels and public transport. The Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, in announcing the changes, said the two meter social distancing rule remains, and other state...
Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While public school students continue their education from home as well as their homework packages during the coronavirus emergency declaration, Education Director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga says the local Eduction Department’s plan is to have seniors still graduate this...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have signed the service agreement that expedites activities aimed to empower ASG to quickly and effectively implement efforts to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic. This is according...
Congresswoman Aumua Amata
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed another vital CARES Act coronavirus relief grant, this time $1,617,855 through the U.S. Department of Education to aid the American Samoa Community College, with $808,943 (half of the total) specified as assistance for the students. “...

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