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DEPT. OF HEALTH
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At the ASG coronavirus task force meeting earlier this month, Health director Motusa Tuileama recommended a mini COVID-19 island wide exercise to test the “strength” of the local health care system in the event of a coronavirus outbreak.
He said the concern in the event...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Social distancing protocol is being observed by a group of people around 8:15a.m yesterday as they were waiting outside of the Health Department’s compound in Fagaalu to get their health card.
Samoa News got a call before 8a.m about the large crowd gathering at this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last Sunday’s ASG coronavirus task force meeting, Health Department Epidemiologist Dr Aifili John Tufa shared two questions from the community relating to the coronavirus pandemic and Samoa News points out that these are the questions that have been circulating on...
This Samoa News photo taken on Monday, May 4, 2020 shows Health Department nurses, who are tasked with putting together the DoH program for Nurses Appreciation Week this week. The program kicked off on Monday and runs through Friday. At LBJ Medical Center, the Nurses Week program started Wednesday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Among the recommendations from the Health Department for consideration as the coronavirus emergency declaration is scheduled to expire, is to continue closing American Samoa’s borders with Samoa and Hawaii until May 31st.
Furthermore, DoH recommends to continue the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Cargo vessels including those for StarKist Samoa, as well as fishing fleet supplying fish for the cannery, are exempted under the governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration.
This message was emphasized by ASG’s COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Iulogologo Joseph Pereira...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a new health advisory issued Tuesday and released that evening, the Health Department outlined information for those who are home quarantined and encouraged village leaders to identify a centralized facility for quarantine to limit the spread of the COVID-19 should...
Honolulu, Hawaii — More than a thousand people in Hawaii had been tested for COVID-19 by Thursday, but the vast majority of the tests were conducted by private laboratories.
The Hawaii Department of Health has only conducted 40 tests based on direct physician referrals for patients who are severely...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To combat the spread of coronavirus into American Samoa, the Health Department under a new travel advisory — which was issued last night and is effective Mar. 9th — places new registrations on all travelers including American Samoa residents entering the territory on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department has recorded another laboratory confirmed measles case, an 8-year-old, bringing the total number to 10 cases for American Samoa; and, last Saturday, mass vaccination at two sites including one at the StarKist Samoa cannery plant began.
DoH officials...