US-CDC changes covid-19 travel notice for American Samoa
Sat, 08/29/2020 - 2:34pm
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Samoa News staff
reporters@samoanews.com
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed the COVID-19 travel risk notice for America Samoa compared to the federal agency’s notice issued Aug. 6th in which CDC says that “COVID-19 risk in American Samoa is high”.
As of yesterday, the CDC listed American Samoa and 20 other countries with a new travel health notice, saying that, “COVID-19 Risk is Very Low”. No explanation was given as to why the change for American Samoa, which is the only US jurisdiction — state or territory — without a confirmed case.
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Travellers from US quarantined in American Samoa
RNZ
30 March, 2020, 10:35 am
Forty-two of the 145 passengers who arrived on the Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu Thursday night have been quarantined.
This is the biggest group of travellers that have been taken in for quarantine since the Covid-19 outbreak World-wide.
Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua said none of the travellers displayed signs of illness but all were from US states with large numbers of Covid-19 cases such as California and Washington.
The group is being quarantined at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for which renovations were just completed two hours before the Hawaiian Airlines plane touched down at Pago Pago International Airport...
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