Staff Writer
A second person has been tested positive for the coronavirus. He is a 70 year old man who traveled to Samoa from Melbourne Australia on the 13 November 2020 repatriation flight from New Zealand.
He and his wife who was tested negative, are now placed under controlled quarantine inside the TTM Hospital compound at the Moto’otua compound.
The Director General of Health, Leausa Dr. Take Naseri, confirmed the new positive tests in a press conference this morning.
“The man has not shown any flu symptoms or other health related conditions that indicate any ill health,” Leausa said.
The man has high blood pressure.
Tighter health restrictions are now in place for all passengers who were in the repatriation flight who are isolated under quarantine.
Leausa said health officials on frontline duties with the flight passengers are also under health monitoring.
This is now the second person to be tested positive in the same flight that included the seafarer who was tested positive earlier.
Health specimens from this second suspected case are to be sent to New Zealand for verification tests on the flight out of Samoa today Friday 27 November ’20.
