Samoa reports second COVID-19 death — this time on Savaii

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An 87-year-old woman died Sunday morning from COVID-19 in Savai'i, Samoa media is reporting.

Samoa Observer quoted the Ministry of Health statement on Sunday night as saying that the deceased, who was unvaccinated, was hospitalized on March 31 with severe respiratory symptoms and was diagnosed with COVID-19 and severe pneumonia.

Samoa recorded its first COVID-19 related death on March 30 after the first community case was reported there on March 17.

Currently, about 97 percent of the community cases are recorded in Upolu and the remaining 3 percent wwere detected in Savai'i.

The island nation is now under an Alert Level 3 nationwide lockdown which went into effect on March 17.