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    Source: https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coro...s-of-outbreak/

    Samoa detects scores of COVID cases within days of outbreak
    Posted: Mar 21, 2022 / 07:32 AM CDT
    Updated: Mar 21, 2022 / 07:32 AM CDT

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa has reported scores of new COVID-19 cases each day since detecting its first case of community transmission last week.

    The South Pacific island nation of 200,000 people has been in lockdown since Saturday as it deals with its first outbreak of the pandemic.

    The outbreak was discovered when a woman who was about to travel tested positive for the virus last Thursday and indicates the virus likely had been spreading undetected for days or even weeks.

    Samoa reported another 95 new cases in 24 hours to Saturday and another 85 on Sunday.

    Only 15 of the 196 active cases were imported from overseas, according to the the latest government statement available Monday. More than 2,200 tests have been done since Friday, the statement said.

    Samoa and several neighboring Pacific island nations were among the last places in the world to avoid virus outbreaks. But the more transmissible omicron variant has changed the equation, and one by one the island nations have been succumbing to COVID-19...


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      Source: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/wo...reak-of-virus/

      Covid 19: Samoa looking at a major outbreak of virus
      NZ Herald,
      \Publish Date Thu, 24 Mar 2022, 10:53AM

      A further 155 Covid cases in the community have been reported in Samoa, taking the total number to 622 in less than a week after the country's first community case was discovered.

      While 90 per cent of the eligible Samoan population are vaccinated, the country's booster and child vaccinations campaigns have not yet started.

      Auckland University epidemiologist Rod Jackson says for Samoa to get ahead of the Covid curve, it must immediately start boosting its elderly...

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