By Staff Writer
A one-year-old baby girl died from COVID 19 related health issues in the latest updated report on the community spread of the pandemic from the Ministry of Health.
The 19-21 June report period showed that the infant child was not eligible for vaccination and had no health conditions.
There are now 29 officially recorded deaths related to the pandemic virus made up overwhelmingly of the elderly age group from 60 years upwards.
Infant deaths so far are uncommon.
The official number of positive cases in the country since the first community case earlier this year is just over a hundred people short of 15,000.
Samoa has taken a bold response to the spread of the pandemic by opting to ‘live with the COVID’ after what the Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa believed is the virus not going away but here to stay.
International travel borders are also coming down for the country in just over a month’s time next August after more than two years of health protection restrictions.
The border travel removals are encouraged by the high COVID 19 vaccination completion rate for both the adults and the children.