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COVID-19 Task Force
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Dept. of Health (DoH), during its presentation at Tuesday afternoon’s COVID-19 Task Force meeting offered three recommendations for consideration, including reinstating test-to-travel protocols for travelers to and from Manu’a.
This requirement was lifted last month...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Releasing travelers who test positive upon arrival to home isolation and positive passengers paying the costs of government supervised isolation are two options that Acting Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale said are part of ongoing discussions with the COVID-19 Task Force...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the number of positive cases from the community spread of COVID-19 has remained low over the past two weeks, the COVID-19 Task Force is looking at recommending the of easing more “internal” restrictions, while still maintaining other protocols in place as new diseases...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s weekly COVID-19 Situational Report for June 6 to June 12 shows that out of the 3,106 individuals tested, only 73 new confirmed COVID cases were reported from LBJ Medical Center and DoH clinics, with no new fatalities relating to the deadly virus....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local Education Department (ASDOE) summer programs and changes in LBJ Medical Center’s policy on caregivers for inpatients at the hospital were some of the issues discussed with the media, during Tuesday’s COVID-19 Task Force news conference, which Lt. Gov. Talauega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With weekly flights between Honolulu and Pago Pago starting in June, the COVID-19 Task Force and the Health Department will reduce COVID testing prior to departing for American Samoa to only one — but it has mandated for travelers 12 years and older to get the booster...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s the “hope of the Governor and the Task Force... to have the government fully functioning by the summer time,” declared Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale during Monday’s COVID-19 Task Force virtual news conference.
Fully functioning government operations would have...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department and COVID-19 Task Force’s focus now has moved to controlling the community spread of the coronavirus and making sure that people of Manu’a are tested and treated, says Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, during Monday’s virus task force news conference...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Information provided by the American Samoa COVID-19 Task Force recently about free meals for people who are in home isolation is escalating the anger felt by some of those who were isolated but never received free meal delivery.
Over the past two weeks, the Task Force...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There are growing concerns from members of the community that there are people who test positive for COVID-19 and their family members are not following home quarantine restrictions and isolation orders.
Several reports from the public state that some of these people are...