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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department officials explained that the positive COVID-19 spread into the community started from a Health Department employee assigned to one of the quarantine sites and this individual infected seven family members.
DoH revealed this during yesterday morning’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The second COVID-19 test for all passengers who arrived on the Sept. 13th flight from Honolulu has come back negative and, meanwhile, they all remain in quarantine, according to Health Department officials during a news conference yesterday providing the latest update on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Repatriated passengers were strangers at the outset but they bonded and become “family”, leaning on each other and helping along the way, as they entered quarantine in Honolulu. There the bond was strengthened while waiting for confirmation from ASG for whether they...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's state of emergency, issued nine months ago, has been extended to 23 December after the country recorded its first positive test for Covid-19.
Public concern and uncertainty swept across the country following Thursday's announcement by the government.
The man was among 26...


![ASG medical team physician, Dr. Peka Lauvao (left) — while Health Department senior pharmacist Dr. Francine Amoa (right) listens — speaking at last Friday’s COVID-19 Task Force news conference where Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale announced the territory’s positive COVID-19 case, which is a local resident who returned to the territory on the Sept. 13th flight from Honolulu. [photo: FS] Dr. Peka Lauvao (left) and Dr. Francine Amoa (right)](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dr._lauvao.jpg?itok=Nea-dR_u)
![Staci Iafeta (left) and her husband, Siave Iafeta (right) were among the 233 passengers of the third repatriation flight last month from Honolulu. They posed for a photo last Friday morning during the Tagata Tutu Fa’atasi Alliance of American Samoa “Thank You Wave” at Utulei. Mr. Iafeta is the passenger who tested positive for COVID-19 ‘non contagious’ while he was in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel. He and his family were removed to a different quarantine center and spent 14 days there before being released last week. [photo: FS] Staci Iafeta (left) and her husband, Siave Iafeta (right)](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/iafeta_couple_6091.jpg?itok=sXv-vFAf)
![Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi called for calm and urged people to keep faith and wear masks. [Samoa Govt photo] Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/pm_in_mask.jpg?itok=eOcGfDXX)