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 Sept. 25.

The report, presented at Tuesday’s COVID-19 Task Force briefing, shows that of the 95 individuals tested at DOH clinics as well as LBJ Medical Center, only 3 of them came back positive.

This compared to the previous week of Sept. 12 to Sept. 18, for which DoH reports a total of 1,145 people were tested and only nine of them tested positive. The previous week, Sept. 05 to Sept. 11, DoH reported 18 new positive cases from the 1,047 individuals tested.

With the 3 new positives, total cumulative COVID-19 count stands at 8,247 since the first community case was recorded on Feb. 28, while the number of active cases has dropped to single-digit also, at only six.

Tafuna village has the highest cumulative number of positive case at 1,495, followed by Nu’uuli with 827, Leone with 627, Ili’ili at 518 and Pago Pago with 460, according to data in the DoH report

The report also shows that COVID-19 related deaths remain at 34, which has been the case for the past several weeks, since first case of death relating to the deadly virus was recorded in March.

From Sept. 19 – 23, there were 65 people who got vaccinated — with either the first or second dose, as well as either first or second booster shot. And vaccinations were conducted out at DoH clinics with testing at the DoH laboratory.

Meanwhile, DoH reminds the community of the Women’s Island-Wide Health Campaign this year, and one of the events is the “Wellness Fair” today, Friday at the Su’igaula o le Atuvasa Park in Utulei.

The fair will have all of the services that are available to women and DoH wants all the women to come out to see the services that are available and information will be available as well. Physicians are also expected to be there and appointments can be scheduled at this time for future visits to the DoH clinics.

See DoH Facebook page for the latest update on Women’s Health Island-Wide Campaign which includes events scheduled for next October.