COVID task force
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Unless there are unforeseen changes, the COVID-19 Task Force has agreed to tentatively close-out its work by the third week in January 2023 now that emergency declarations have ended, and all local restrictions have long been lifted as the community spread of the deadly...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force has recommended to Gov. Lemanu P. S Mauga that travel to American Samoa be completely re-opened to include cruise ships at the beginning of 2023, the task force said in a statement issued last week.
Since the global outbreak of the COVID-19...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At Tuesday afternoon’s COVID-19 Task Force weekly briefing, LBJ Medical Center reported a new COVID related death, bringing the cumulative mortality total to 34 since the first death relating to the deadly virus was reported in American Samoa in March.
The latest...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID Task Force on Monday suspended Samoa flights until further notice in the wake of record number of cases out of the independent state, with Chairman Lt. Gov. Talaeuga Ale issuing a word of caution to local frontline workers as it prepares for their flight this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A one time “hero pay” bonus is in the works for COVID-19 Task Force members and key support staff for the work they have accomplished over the past year.
In a Task Force press release issued yesterday, Lt Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale — who is also the Task Force chair...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Secretary of Samoan Affairs Mauga T. Asuega has called for unity from the community standing together with the Administration’s move to start repatriation flights bringing home local residents stranded across the US while LBJ Medical Center says it’s prepared for the...