Samoa

Four more positive Covid cases were reported in Kiribati; Tonga eases restrictions further; 331 new cases in Samoa and more PNG rugby league players getting NRL exposure

Two passengers on a flight between Fiji and Samoa last Saturday tested positive to Covid-19 on arrival at Faleolo Airport.

Samoa's Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has appeared before a parliamentary committee to explain an agreement she signed with the opposition leader to discontinue a contempt of court case.

Samoa's overnight curfew will ease, schools will begin opening this week and some travel can resume under changes to Covid emergency restrictions.

A new era has dawned in Samoa with the swearing-in of three women MPs, taking the number of women in the Legislative Assembly to seven.

Young Samoan climate activist recognised; call for New Zealand to act over sea bed mining; Tonga gets a new police chief; reassurance for the outer Cooks over covid and the UN launching a climate…

Super Rugby Pacific rivals Moana Pasifika and the Fijian Drua will play each on Saturday night in a highly anticipated matchup at CommBank Stadium in Sydney.

Samoa will now have seven women members of Parliament after the Supreme Court ordered the Speaker, Papali'I Li'o Ta'eu Masipa'u, to swear in three new women MPs forthwith.

Samoa's youngest Covid-19 patient to be hospitalised - a toddler who also had severe pneumonia - has been discharged from hospital in what is being described as a miracle.