“8 NEW POSITIVE CASES IN MANAGED ISOLATION“ (GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT):- The Ministry of Health as of this morning, 07th March 2022 confirmed 8 new positive cases quarantined in managed isolation. These patients were part of the 172 passengers that arrived in Samoa on the 6th March repatriation flight from New Zealand. These cases are managed […]
This section contains all Press Releases on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Samoa.
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PRESS RELEASE : APPROVED SCHEDULE OF FLIGHTS TO TRANSPORT SEASONAL WORKERS TO NZ & AUST | PEPA O FAAMATALAGA : FAIGAMALAGA O VA’ALELE MO LE AUINA ATU MA LE TOE FA’AFOI MAI O TAGATANUU O SAMOA (24/02/2022)
February 24, 2022
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(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT);- Cabinet at its meeting FK (22) 06 discussed and approved the following schedule of charted flights to transport RSE & Seasonal Workers to New Zealand and Australia as follows; FLIGHTS TO AUSTRALIA DURING MARCH 2022 01 March 2022 : Flight to transport Seasonal workers contracted to work for 7-9 months in Victoria […]
(SO’O’UPU A LE MĀLŌ): I le mae’a ai o le fa’asalalauga fa’apitoa mai le Afioga i le Palemia, Fiame Naomi Mataafa i le asō, ua fa’ailoa mai ai o le pasese mulimuli sa a’afia i siama o le Koviti – 19 na malaga mai le faigāmalaga o le Aso 19 Ianuari 2022, ua te’a i […]
(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT);- Following the official announcement from the Honourable Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mataafa today, the last positive case passenger from Australia flight 19th January 2022 was discharged yesterday after 3 consecutive tests returned negative. However, 5 frontline workers still remain in isolation and are still well and asymptomatic. There is still no evidence […]
(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT);- Cabinet at its meeting FK (22) 05 discussed and thereby approved the following schedule of flights for Samoa; 22nd February 2022, AIR NEW ZEALAND FLIGHT (REPATRIATION / CARGO) 26th February 2022 : Air New Zealand flight for Cargo only and uplift RSE workers to New Zealand 28th February 2022 : Charter flight […]
All Arriving Passengers Returned Negative COVID 19 Test Results 272 passengers arrived from NZ on Saturday 12th February, 2022. This repatriation flight was scheduled to arrive last month but was postponed due to the nationwide lockdown following the flight of 19th January, 2022. All 272 passengers were swabbed upon arrival, and all returned negative results […]
IUGAFONO A LE KAPENETA: LAASAGA FOU O LE VAVAO PE A MAE’A LE PIRIOTA O VAVAO O LOO IAI NEI (OFISA O LE SO’OUPU)- I lana Fonotaga FK(22) Faapitoa 09 o le Aso Faraile 11 Fepuari 2022, na talanoaina ai e le Kapeneta le Pepa PK(22)105 ma faamaonia ai e faapea: Le iai nei o […]
SUBJECT: FRONTLINE STAFF RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE ALL TESTED NEGATIVE FOR COVID -19. All frontline staff that were released from quarantine were tested 7 times using GeneXpert SARS-CoV-2 PCR test for Covid-19 and all test results returned negative. Frontline staff included those from Samoa Airport Authority, Immigration Division (MPMC), Customs Division (MCR), Quarantine Division (MAF), Samoa […]
SAMOA CLOSES HER BORDERS TO AUSTRALIA, FIJI, USA AND HIGH RISK COUNTRIES (Ministry of Health, 7 Feb 2022, APIA SAMOA); Effective immediately Samoas’ borders to travelers from countries such as Australia, Fiji, the United States, the United Kingdom is closed until further notice.The Updated Travel Advisory to this effect was issued by the Ministry of […]
(Press Release, 05 February, 2022) – Following the 7th round of the testing schedule on Friday 4 February; for all passengers of flight QF 115 and all frontline workers that serviced the flight, all in quarantine, no new positive case was identified. There remains no evidence of community transmission. The timely arrival of the 10,000 […]
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