Samoa has reported scores of new COVID-19 cases each day since detecting its first case of community transmission last week.
The South Pacific island nation of 200,000 people has been in lockdown since Saturday as it deals with its first outbreak of the pandemic.
Samoa and several neighbouring Pacific island nations were among the last places in the world to avoid virus outbreaks. But the more transmissible Omicron variant has changed the equation, and one by one the island nations have been succumbing to COVID-19. All Samoan schools are closed, public gatherings are banned, and all stores and other services are shut down, except those considered essential.About 65% of all Samoans have had at least two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to Our World in Data.
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