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The list of countries that have kept the novel coronavirus pandemic from their borders has reduced by one more: Samoa has recorded its first positive test for Covid-19, writes Pacific editor Ben Doherty
In a national address broadcast on TV and radio across the country, prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announced that a sailor, who had returned from New Zealand on a repatriation flight, tested positive in a quarantine facility in the capital Apia. He has since been moved to an isolation ward at the Tupua Tamasese Motootua hospital.
Despite the shocking landmark of 250,000 deaths reached in the US, there are some signs of hope that Republicans are realising that they must allow president-elect Joe Biden to work up his plans to tackle the pandemic despite Donald Trump’s refusal to cooperate.
Ed Pilkington of our US staff has this analysis:
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