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1st Case of COVID in American Samoa Arrives on Hawaii Flight
American Samoa reported its first case of coronavirus on Friday.
By Associated Press
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Sept. 17, 2021, at 9:10 p.m.
By FILI SAGAPOLUTELE, Associated Press
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, reported its first case of coronavirus on Friday.
The territory’s acting governor, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, and health officials said the islands’ first case of COVID-19 was in a resident who returned to America Samoa from a trip to the U.S. mainland and Hawaii earlier this week.
The infected traveler flew in on Monday, the first day of newly resumed commercial flights from Honolulu to Pago Pago. The route had been suspended since March 2020 because of the pandemic.
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American Samoa Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga was among the passengers on the Monday flight from Hawaii and is now in quarantine.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...id-in-american-samoa-arrives-on-hawaii-flight
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American Samoa reported its first case of coronavirus on Friday.
By Associated Press
|
Sept. 17, 2021, at 9:10 p.m.
By FILI SAGAPOLUTELE, Associated Press
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, reported its first case of coronavirus on Friday.
The territory’s acting governor, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, and health officials said the islands’ first case of COVID-19 was in a resident who returned to America Samoa from a trip to the U.S. mainland and Hawaii earlier this week.
The infected traveler flew in on Monday, the first day of newly resumed commercial flights from Honolulu to Pago Pago. The route had been suspended since March 2020 because of the pandemic.
...
American Samoa Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga was among the passengers on the Monday flight from Hawaii and is now in quarantine.
...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...id-in-american-samoa-arrives-on-hawaii-flight
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