No Visible Symptoms from Infected Crew
The container ship Fesco Askold remains out at sea waiting for a decision from ASG on when it can return to port to off load its cargo and be on its way back to California. This afternoon the ...Read more
The container ship Fesco Askold remains out at sea waiting for a decision from ASG on when it can return to port to off load its cargo and be on its way back to California. This afternoon the ...Read more
A Phd student from American Samoa is the second author of a study that has been awarded the Yale School of Public Health Best Student Abstract by the Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus for Public ...Read more
The Department of Health says they’re reviewing their seaport protocols for screening and testing for coronavirus to minimize exposure of personnel. With the case of the container ship Fesco ...Read more
The Director General of Health in Samoa has come under fire in a hard hitting editorial in the daily Samoa Observer newspaper for his handling of the case of COVID infected sailors on the Fesco ...Read more
A recommendation by the Coronavirus Task Force to have the container ship Fesco Askold anchor outside the harbor for a minimum of seven days has been approved by Governor Lolo Moliga. The Task ...Read more
Samoa’s Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri says Samoa’s health port protocols are air tight, and there is no need to panic amidst reports about the positive COVID-19 tests in ...Read more
The school closest to the Department of Health Quarantine Center is Tafuna Elementary. Eleven people who had contact, direct and indirect, with the Fesco Askold crew members who tested positive for ...Read more
Three crew members of a container ship which arrived in port yesterday Fesco Askold have tested positive for COVID-19. Department of Health Epidemiologist Dr Aifili John Tufa announced the positive ...Read more
Three crew members of a container ship which arrived in port today have tested positive for COVID-19. The Fesco Askold which calls into Pago Pago regularly arrived in port at noon today. In ...Read more
Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs Director Nikolao Pula now says repatriation of hundreds of American Samoans stranded in the states could start even before a December ban on flights expires. ...Read more