Samoa does not have a confirmed COVID-19 case.
In an official statement, the Ministry of Health confirmed that since the State of Emergency was declared a total of 26 samples had been sent for testing.
Twenty of those samples have all returned negative results while 6 which were done after the last plane flew out of the country at the closing of Samoa’s borders, will await resumption of flights to New Zealand.
MOH also confirmed the news Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi had broken earlier in the day that a flight attendant of the Malindo aircraft leased to Samoa Airways is leasing is in isolation.
“Currently, one patient in isolation at Tupua Tamasese Meaole hospital is under investigation,” said the statement.
Tuilaepa said the patient had been brought in with a high fever and admitted.
He also indicated that the leased Malindo aircraft may be sent back later this week and arrange transport for the sick flight attendant back to Singapore.
