Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This section provides the latest official updates, information and advice on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Samoa.

O le vaega lenei o lo’o fa’amauina ai fa’asilasilaga, fa’amatalaga ma fa’amaumauga lata mai e fa’atatau i le Coronavirus (COVID-19)

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT) The repatriation flight from New Zealand is re-scheduled from the 11th September 2020 to the 18th September 2020 due to flight availability, Cabinet approved late this afternoon. The flight is designated for returning citizens and RSE workers who should be returning home since the end of their short term employment contracts. REPATRIATION […]

In consultation with Cabinet, the Head of State le ao Mamalu ole Malo Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II pursuant to Article 106 of the Constitution signed into the law on 2 September 2020 the new amendments to the State of Emergency Orders for COVID-19. The orders with the amendments are published below in it’s entirety for […]

1 September, 2020: The women of Malaela in Aleipata have successfully completed their handicraft project, which empowered them with skills in sewing and elei-making in order to earn money and provide for their families. Twenty percent (20%) of the women’s Komiti in the beginning had no skills and a few with limited capacity; however, at […]

1 September, 2020: Forty-eight (48) women of Alataua I Sisifo participated in their Sewing and Elei project, supported by the Government of Australia in partnership with the Government of Samoa through the Civil Society Support Programme (CSSP) under the Samoa Women Shaping Development Programme (SWSDP-Gender Fund). The focus of this initiative is to empower women […]

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); The $200,000 allocation approved in the Legislative Assembly’s Fiscal Year Budget 2020-2021 for the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) has been reabsorbed back in the budget to assist the country in its collective response to the COVID-19.  This was approved in a Cabinet directive FK (20)30 on 29th July 2020,  almost a […]