COVID-19
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Homeland Security issued a statement yesterday afternoon detailing preparations in Hawaii and American Samoa for the 2nd repatriation flight, which was the main topic of discussion during the meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force on Monday,...
Apia, SAMOA — The backlog of deceased awaiting autopsies in Samoa may soon get relief with an offer of assistance from the Chinese Embassy.
The Samoa Observer newspaper reported some 18 bodies, including those of children, were lying at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital mortuary waiting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Four people have been removed from the second group of American Samoa residents set to be repatriated from the United States after testing positive for Covid-19.
The Chair of the House Health Committee, Andra Samoa, said that the number of people in the quarantined group...
Pacific people are no strangers to hardship.
Living on the frontlines of the climate crisis, thousands of miles from most places, its accepted daily that life is a struggle.
Most Pacific Islanders have had to rebuild their lives multiple times whether it be from cyclones, flooding, conflict,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to leaving office, former Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga submitted the required initial report to the US Department of Education (USDOE) outlining the allocation and spending of more than $7 million awarded under the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) program...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoan authorities are likely to extend the quarantine period for 160 repatriated passengers who arrived three weeks ago if a 16-year-old male on their flight continues to test positive for Covid-19.
Newsline Samoa reports the young carrier, who has been in isolation at the Tupua...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand's Pasifika community has been living and working on the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic, since the coronavirus arrived a year ago.
On the 28th February 2020, New Zealand announced their first confirmed Covid-19 case reported to the Ministry of Health.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department is taking its COVID-19 vaccination effort to the community, with three days of vaccination at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium. DoH will also conduct a drive-thru vaccination in the upcoming weekend at the airport.
DoH issued a statement last Friday...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa has registered it’s first official Covid-19 positive case since the global pandemic emerged out of Wuhan China in late 2019.
The community remains covid free however, with the 16 year old in managed isolation since he arrived on a repatriation flight on the 12th of February...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The family of a Kiwi woman, who recently found out she was dying of cancer, say the process of trying to get her Samoan parents an emergency allocation in a managed isolation facility has been frustrating.
Tasi and Ioana Parker, New Zealand citizens who retired to Samoa...