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DoH: Stranded residents must be able “to endure up to 24-days” of quarantine in order to travel home
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department physicians will assess the ability of travelers who submit an application for repatriation from the US “to endure up to 24-days” of quarantine including pre-boarding quarantine at a designated hotel in Hawai’i.
This is according to DoH’s response...
Apia, SAMOA — People returning to Samoa on the country's first repatriation flight from the US will have to spend three weeks in quarantine upon their arrival.
The 300 passengers scheduled to return on Friday will be spend 21 days rather than the usual 14 days in such conditions.
The Ministry of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The container vessel, Fesco Askold, with three of its 17 crew members who tested positive for COVID-19, sailed out of the Pago Pago Harbor around 10:30a.m yesterday, enroute back to the US with cargo loaded from American Samoa.
The vessel, which arrived from Samoa on Nov...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) reports the 19 staff placed under controlled isolation a week ago since the 3 reported cases in American Samoa linked to the container ship – Fesco Askold, remain under 14 days quarantine as a health precaution.
They undertook COVID...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ship which brought cases of Covid-19 into American Samoa's port, is taking longer to unload and reload than expected.
Last week three crew from the Fesco Askold container ship tested positive for Covid-19 throwing a scare into the coronavirus-free community.
It was...
Apia, SAMOA — A total of 17 people are in managed quarantine after working with the now-infected container ship that passed through Apia this weekend, the Government has confirmed.
Four are Government staff from the Ministry of Health and the Samoa Port Authority and 13 are stevedoring crew members...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Five fishermen appeared in District Court this week accused of violating the Public Health Emergency Plan by leaving their boats while they were under quarantine.
The five fisherman are Indonesia Nationals and each was charged with one count of violating the Public...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says he supports the Health Department’s decision not to waive the full 14-day quarantine requirement for US Federal Emergency Management Agency officials who had entered the territory and urged health officials to continue making the right...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The order to deny a US soldier entry into American Samoa for his mother's funeral reportedly came from Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga.
Sergeant Sanele Lemana arrived on a federal flight this week after travelling from Alaska to attend the funeral of his mother who died in...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Police have confirmed that a pastor who defied security guards and forcibly entered the place where his wife was being self-isolated, has been fined $2,000 tala.
The Officer in charge of Samoa’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Auapaau Logoitino Filipo told Samoa Global...