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Health authorities in American Samoa are highlighting the spread of Covid-19 in Fiji in an effort to encourage more residents to get fully vaccinated.
A boy laughs as he gets the Covid-19 vaccine in American Samoa, in June.
Photo: Supplied / American Samoa Department of Health
Around 37,000 people are eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the US territory.
As of this week, 68.5 percent of those had received at least one of the shots and 60.6 percent were fully immunised.
The Health Department s chief epidemiologist Dr Aifili John Tufa highlighted the plight of Fiji, where community transmission of the Delta variant is soaring.
In American Samoa, close to 24,000 Covid-19 vaccination shots have been administered to date in the territory.
This is about 42 percent of the eligible population according to the Department of Health s Aifili Dr John Tufa.
The latest vaccination site, which opened Monday at the Lee Auditorium, administered about 500 shots on the first day.
Waiting time for getting to the vaccination has been reduced from 3 minutes on the first day, to 2 minutes according to Dr Tufa who timed the process.
Epidemiologist Aifili Dr John Tufa
Photo: RNZ Pacific / Monica Miller
This does not include the injection time and the 15 minutes to monitor the person for any adverse reaction.