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An Apia primary school in Samoa closed and others are in emergency meetings after hearing that there may have been local contact with a cargo ship with Covid-19 cases on board.
Three crew members aboard the Fesco Askold, which arrived in American Samoa yesterday, tested positive and no one was allowed to leave the ship.
The ship had originated in California on October 25 and had daytime stops in Tahiti on November 4 and in Apia four days later.
In a notice to the parents of the St Peters Chanel school in Moamoa, Principal Tepora Tu’i wrote that “a Year 1 student has been in direct contact with a family member who worked in the cargo cleaning of the Fesco ship. Askold ”.
The principal advised parents to pick up their children and the school was waiting for the government announcement as contact tracing is in place.
Samoa has strict protocols for cargo delivery and no contact with crew members is assumed.
The Pacific nation remains nervous after a measles epidemic caused the loss of young children in many families last year.
You have yet to register a case of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, in French Polynesia, many schools are on strike today over the government’s response to the rates of Covid-19, one of the worst in the world.
Another 10 people died over the weekend, bringing the death toll to 49, and there have been more than 10,600 cases since the borders were opened in July without the need for quarantine.
The education sector demands tougher measures, as there are not enough masks for students and social distancing in classrooms is a problem.
