American Samoa

The American Samoa Senate is preparing legislation to allow people stranded overseas by Covid-19 to vote in the November 3rd poll.

American Samoa says quarantine will be imposed on coronavirus related workers - including US Federal Emergency Management Agency personnel - entering the territory.

Four teams will vie to become governor and lieutenant governor in American Samoa's November general election.

A suicide prevention programme that reaches out to students in need has been restarted at American Samoa's Community College.

The American Samoan Governor has asked officials to work on a repatriation plan to get residents home by next week.

An American Samoan lawmaker says the government is lacking any plan to safely bring home residents who went off-island for medical appointments.

The legalisation of medicinal marijuana has been put forward as a way to release Medicaid funding for American Samoa.

American Samoa's Department of Health says it is closely monitoring the extent of the Covid-19 outbreak in Hawai'i.