essential workers
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While spouses and children of essential workers worry about their loved ones who are at their workplaces during the pandemic, many families and individuals are experiencing dramatic changes in their lives as American Samoa heads into its third week of community spread of...

![An agent (right) checking a man’s package at the Customs checkpoint at the U.S Post Office in Fagatogo last week. Essential workers and their families are having to combat the virus through ‘isolation’ and are finding it hard to not feel sad, depressed and at times angry. But they are getting through it. [photo by AF] Customs agent inspecting a package of person picking up at post office](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/custom_agent_1088.jpg?itok=Hex9MHKy)