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COVID-19 Task Force

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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force Operations financial report covering 2022, provides a new update of what the government plans to do with the TALOFAPass online platform, that was utilized to pre-screen travelers entering the territory during the COVID restrictions. There was much...
Earlier Task Force meeting
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa spent more than $73 million in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with the first case of community spread of the deadly virus in February last year, followed by the first recorded death the following month, according to the recently completed 2022 COVID-19...
Lt. Governor Talauega E.V. Ale
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The number of positive cases from the community spread of COVID-19 remains very low at single digits, according to the Health Department’s COVID 19 Situational Report for the week of Dec. 12 to Dec. 18. Of the 54 individuals tested at DoH Laboratory and LBJ Medical...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s recommendation to suspend the use of ASG’s online safe travel portal, TALOFAPass — which screens entry into American Samoa — was the subject of discussion at Tuesday’s COVID-19 Task Force briefing, but a final decision on the issue has not been...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — New positive cases from the community spread of COVID-19 remain at single digit-numbers for the second week in a row, and the number of people who were tested also decreased, according to the Health Department’s COVID-19 Situational Report for the week of Sept. 19 to...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The number of new COVID-19 positive cases continues to decline and remains at double digits, and the Health Department has received its first shipment of the monkeypox vaccine for American Samoa, according to the latest DoH Situational Report presented at Tuesday...
Attorney General Fainu’ulelei Falefatu Alailima Utu
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The number of weekly positive COVID-19 community spread cases in American Samoa had dropped to double-digit numbers after weeks of triple-digit cases, as the second surge of the pandemic continues to decline, according the Health Department (DoH) Situational Report...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has reported a new COVID-19 related death, bringing the mortality tally to 33, since the first death relating to the deadly virus was documented in March this year, according to ASG officials present at Tuesday afternoon’s COVID-19 Task Force weekly...
Dr. Elizabeth Lauvao
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Five passengers onboard Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu last week Friday night tested COVID-19 positive and were placed in isolation, in accordance with local protocol. Responding to media questions Health Department Clinical Services director Dr. Elizabeth Lauvao...
Pictured [l-r], House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga, and Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean. [photo: Gov’s Office]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s address to the joint session opening the 4th Regular Session of the 37th Legislature outlined the collective efforts the territory made dealing with the pandemic since American Samoa recorded its first community case. He said since the...

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