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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is widening its COVID-19 vaccination campaign with the vaccine to be given to children, five to 11 years old — following federal approval for this age group — and a mass vaccination will take place towards the end of this month to be carried out in...
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.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department has moved to early next week, the start of the measles mass vaccination in American Samoa. Meanwhile the Samoa government-owned MV Lady Naomi will not carry passengers on the inter-Samoa sail after ASG placed more restrictions on travel between the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Visitations at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) are “suspended until further notice” due to American Samoa being under an emergency declaration because of the measles outbreak, said Police Commissioner, Le’i Sonny Thompson at last Sunday’s emergency cabinet...


![Health Department medical personnel giving measles shots to StarKist Samoa workers last Saturday at the cannery compound in Satala, during the first day of the DoH mass vaccination on Tutuila. [courtesy photo] Health Department medical personnel giving measles shots to StarKist Samoa workers](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/starkist_vaccination.jpg?itok=ffUU5Nb2)
![Two ASG workers wearing protective nose/ mouth masks, who staffed the drop-off location for the “Fesoasoani Alofa Mo Samoa Fundraising” in front of the Lumana’i Building last Saturday. This is one of several drop off locations on Tutuila. There are two in the Manu’a islands. The drop off locations will be open again this coming Saturday for the fundraising, which runs through Dec. 20th. [photo: FS] Two ASG workers wearing protective nose/ mouth masks,](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/with_masks.jpg?itok=XmdawWrm)
![Members of the public talk outside the Faga’alu DOH Health Clinic while awaiting to take their children in for their MMR Vaccination this past Saturday morning. [photo: Tony Gasu] Members of the public talk outside the Faga’alu DOH Health Clinic](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/waiting_for_vax_8435.jpg?itok=LifCd9lm)