COVID-19 Press Releases

This section contains all Press Releases on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Samoa.

O le vaega lenei o lo’o fa’amauina ai pepa o fa’amatalaga e fa’atatau i le Coronavirus (COVID-19)

(Press Release, 05 February, 2022) – Following the 7th round of the testing schedule on Friday 4 February; for all passengers of flight QF 115 and all frontline workers that serviced the flight, all in quarantine, no new positive case was identified. There remains no evidence of community transmission. The timely arrival of the 10,000 […]

Malaga o Vaalele mo le Masina o Fepuari 2022 I lana Fonotaga FK(22) 03 o le Aso Lulu 2 Fepuari 2022 ma fa’aauau ai i le Aso Tofi 3 Fepuari 2022, na talanoaina ai e le Kapeneta le Pepa PK(22)80 ma faamaonia ai faigamalaga mo vaalele ua faailoa atu i lalo: I. Aso 5 Fepuari […]

Launching of the Government COVID19 Assistance for the Private Sector; and The Worker Associations Grant COVID19 Assistance for the Private SectorThe Government’s commitment in private sector development is the purpose of appropriating$10million Tala in its Budget for FY2021/2022 with the purpose to assist the private sector intheir efforts to combat the impacts of the COVID19 […]

(02 FEBUARY 2022)- Following completion of the sixth testing schedule on 1st February, one new positive case was identified from the nursing staff that work in the Isolation Ward taking the total positive cases in managed isolation to 31. All other 48 passengers continue to test negative and are in good health. The 25 positive […]

In accordance with the Government’s State of Emergency Order 65 and the declaration of COVID-19 Alert Level 2 for the country, the general public is hereby advised that effective from Monday, 31st January 2022 to Friday, 11th February 2022, the following shall apply: For all Exchange Control matters, the Central Bank of Samoa (CBS) will […]

(OFISA O LE SO’O’UPU); O lo’o tumau pea Samoa i le La’asaga #2 (Alert Level #2) o lelanumoli o Poloa’iga o Fa’alavelave Fa’afuase’i. E o’o mai i le taeao nei (Aso Sa 30 Ianuari2022) ua fa’amauina e le Matāgaluega o le Soifua Mālōlōina le fa’aopoopo ai o le to’atolu (3)i latou fou ua a’afia i […]

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); Samoa is now at Alert Level 2. As of this morning Sunday 30 January,2022 the Ministry of Health advised that following the implementation of its regular test schedule forall persons in quarantine three new positive cases have been identified from among the passengersincluding a 4 year old child. The total number of […]