{"id":10599,"date":"2022-04-03T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T09:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T09:29:47","slug":"87-year-old-female-confirmed-samoas-second-covid-19-related-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599","title":{"rendered":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporters<\/p>\n<p><strong>APIA, SAMOA \u2013 03 APRIL 2022:<\/strong> An 87 year old female of the Fa&#8217;asaleleaga district in Savaii has been confirmed as Samoa\u2019s second COVID-19 related death.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Health confirmed today that the woman was admitted at the Malietoa Tanumafili II Hospital at Tuasivi last Thursday, 31 March 2022 with severe respiratory symptoms, and was diagnosed with COVID19 and severe pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry statement said the woman had no known medical comorbidities however, she was unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the best efforts of the medical and nursing team at MT Hospital to respond to the patient, her conditions worsened and she eventually passed away at 10.30am this morning,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe upkeep the families and relatives of the deceased in our prayers as they go through these difficult times,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Covid related death<br \/>\n<\/strong>Samoa recorded its first COVID-19 related death last Thursday, 30 March who was a 67 year old male of Aleipata who had multiple comorbidities.<\/p>\n<p>He died shortly after he was admitted at the Lalomanu District Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first community case was detected on 17 March 2022, the latest figures from the Ministry of Health (as of yesterday 02 April), recorded <strong>203<\/strong> new community cases, taking the total number of community cases to <strong>2,279.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>1,517 <\/strong>active cases while <strong>761<\/strong> people are confirmed to have fully recovered.\u00a0Nine (9) people are currently being isolated at the Moto&#8217;otua National Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Per age group, the highest number of cases are those between <strong>15 and 54 years<\/strong> with <strong>1635<\/strong> recorded cases.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>139<\/strong> cases of babies <strong>0-4 years<\/strong> and <strong>118<\/strong> cases in the <strong>65+ age<\/strong> group.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the vaccination roll out continues this week as <strong>99%<\/strong> have had the first dose and <strong>90.2%<\/strong> had both. But only <strong>23,162<\/strong> have had the third dose &#8211; <strong>Booster<\/strong>\u00a0out of the target population of <strong>121,891<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporters APIA, SAMOA \u2013 03 APRIL 2022: An 87 year old female of the Fa&#8217;asaleleaga district in Savaii has been confirmed as Samoa\u2019s second COVID-19 related death. The Ministry of Health confirmed today that the woman was admitted at the Malietoa Tanumafili II Hospital at Tuasivi last Thursday, 31 March 2022 with severe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556,183,177],"tags":[720,59,719,718,721],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-health","category-latest","tag-87-year-old-female","tag-featured","tag-pushing-vaccination","tag-second-covid-related-death","tag-tuasivi-hospital"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Staff Reporters APIA, SAMOA \u2013 03 APRIL 2022: An 87 year old female of the Fa&#8217;asaleleaga district in Savaii has been confirmed as Samoa\u2019s second COVID-19 related death. The Ministry of Health confirmed today that the woman was admitted at the Malietoa Tanumafili II Hospital at Tuasivi last Thursday, 31 March 2022 with severe [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Talamua Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"578\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Staff Reporters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Staff Reporters\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Staff Reporters\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0\"},\"headline\":\"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447\",\"keywords\":[\"87 year old female\",\"Featured\",\"pushing vaccination\",\"second covid related death\",\"Tuasivi hospital\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Community\",\"Health\",\"Latest\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599\",\"name\":\"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447\",\"width\":720,\"height\":578,\"caption\":\"Vaccinating child in car\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?p=10599#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Talamua Online\",\"description\":\"&#039;Talamua&#039; in english means the &#039;First Word&#039;\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0\",\"name\":\"Staff Reporters\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-NZ\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/talamua.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1\",\"caption\":\"Staff Reporters\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/talamua.com\\\/?author=6\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online","og_description":"By Staff Reporters APIA, SAMOA \u2013 03 APRIL 2022: An 87 year old female of the Fa&#8217;asaleleaga district in Savaii has been confirmed as Samoa\u2019s second COVID-19 related death. The Ministry of Health confirmed today that the woman was admitted at the Malietoa Tanumafili II Hospital at Tuasivi last Thursday, 31 March 2022 with severe [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599","og_site_name":"Talamua Online","article_published_time":"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":578,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Staff Reporters","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Staff Reporters","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599"},"author":{"name":"Staff Reporters","@id":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0"},"headline":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death","datePublished":"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599"},"wordCount":298,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","keywords":["87 year old female","Featured","pushing vaccination","second covid related death","Tuasivi hospital"],"articleSection":["Community","Health","Latest"],"inLanguage":"en-NZ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599","url":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599","name":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death - Talamua Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","datePublished":"2022-04-03T09:29:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-NZ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-NZ","@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","width":720,"height":578,"caption":"Vaccinating child in car"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?p=10599#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"87 year old female confirmed Samoa\u2019s second COVID 19 related death"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/#website","url":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/","name":"Talamua Online","description":"&#039;Talamua&#039; in english means the &#039;First Word&#039;","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-NZ"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/talamua.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3b81c117cfbea9591f32b927c5f10a0","name":"Staff Reporters","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-NZ","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TM-Staff-Reporters.png?resize=96%2C96&ssl=1","caption":"Staff Reporters"},"url":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/?author=6"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAiL5-2KX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talamua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Vaccinating-child-in-car.jpg?fit=720%2C578&ssl=1?v=1650961447","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talamua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}