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COVID-19 Task Force
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During the COVID-19 Task Force meeting on Monday this week, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga urged members to continue looking and planning ahead despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Delta variant which has cost the government more than $18...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After a request from the plaintiff, abd through notice of voluntary dismissal, a federal judge in California has “dismissed in its entirety” a complaint by local resident, identified in court documents as “Jane Doe” against certain members of the American Samoa COVID-19...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Five government officials who are members of the COVID-19 Task Force and defendants in a federal lawsuit, have requested the US District Court, Central District of California to “dismiss the case with prejudice” against them, as the court “has no personal jurisdiction...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s COVID Task Force is reporting a ‘false positive’ came back from one of the 137 passengers who came to the territory on the Aug. 30 test flight from Honolulu. The passenger tested positive on 9/3/21 but a follow up test using GeneXpert RTPCR yielded a negative...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s news conference, Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale said the Administration is not making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory at this time, and that Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has “resisted mandating anything to our people.”
The COVID-19 Task...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A federal judge in California has granted a joint motion, giving certain members of the ASG COVID-19 Task Force until Sept. 14th to respond to the amended complaint filed by local resident “Jane Doe” who alleges that the task force rules which prohibit pets from entering...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa COVID-19 Task Force will be conducting a Full Scale Exercise at the Pago Pago International Airport on Thursday, Aug. 26th. The exercise will promptly commence at 7:00 PM and end at 9:00 PM.
The purpose of this full scale exercise is to gauge the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s new rules — effective for only 120-days — allowing service animals to enter the territory is “a sham to make the case appear moot,” according to the latest filing by a local resident, who has a lawsuit pending in the US District Court, Central District...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While rumors have been flying about a delay in the first Hawaiian Air-managed flight in almost a year and half, a press release from the COVID-19 task force is now confirming the August 26th flight — the first flight in phase two of the government’s repatriation plan —...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — COVID-19 Task Force members who testified before the Fono House Health Committee this week had to answer some tough questions re a Samoa government official who did not go through pandemic protocols when he arrived from Samoa, as well as those people who got to return on...