COVID-19 pandemic in American Samoa | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | American Samoa |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Arrival date | November 9, 2020[1] (3 years, 9 months, 1 week and 3 days ago) |
Confirmed cases | 8,263[2] |
Suspected cases‡ | 0 |
Recovered | 8,262 |
Deaths | 34 |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
The COVID-19 pandemic in American Samoa is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the unincorporated United States territory of American Samoa on November 9, 2020.[1]