covid varient
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After consultation with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local physicians, the Health Department has made a change in the test samples from the local imported COVID-19 cases to be sent to CDC to test for the type of variant.
This was revealed...

![The territory’s lead epidemiologist, Dr. Aifili John Tufa commented on the positive cases and whether they’re going to be shipped off to CDC for sequencing. “After our conversation with CDC, [and] some of our physicians here, it was decided that because of patient privacy information, we cannot send the sample off to CDC at this time for genomic sequencing.” Dr. Aifili John Tufa](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dr_a_tufa_8.jpg?itok=1vaDT09f)