samoa lockdown
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 48-hour lockdown in Samoa has now been extended for another 72 hours — til 6p.m, Thursday Jan. 27 in Apia (Wednesday in American Samoa) — after 5 frontline workers tested COVID-19 positive.
Fiame made the announcement Monday night in Apia (Sunday in American Samoa)...
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — few hours after Samoa announced a nation-wide lock down, after 15 passengers on a flight this week from Australia tested COVID-19 positive, American Samoa Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga offered words of “solidarity” and announced that inter Samoa flights are...
APIA, Samoa — Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has declared a nation-wide lockdown starting today, Saturday, Jan. 22 in Apia (Friday in American Samoa) from 6p.m. until 6.p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24 (Sunday in American Samoa) — after 15 passengers who arrived earlier this week on a flight from...

![This photo by Samoa Police and Prison Services, posted on the Government of Samoa Facebook page shows officers at a police check point in Samoa during the 48-hour lock-down over the weekend in the Independent State, after 15 passengers onboard a flight from Australia last week were tested COVID-19 positive. [photo: Samoa Gov’t Facebook] Police check point in Apia during lockdown](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_police_check_point_.jpg?itok=xA1H_BSt)

