of the border on 1 august 2022. she also confirmed that 93.6% of people aged 18 years and over, 92.4% of 12-17 year olds, and 91.4% of 5–11 year olds had been fully vaccinated against covid-19. august 2022 on 1 august, samoa's border reopened to international travel. this announcement was welcomed by tourism operators, samoa tourism, and samoa airports chief silimana'i ueta solomona jr. the first international flight to travel to samoa following the lifting of border restrictions was a new zealand defence force aircraft carrying a delegation of new zealand political leaders, officials, civil society leaders, and journalists including prime minister jacinda ardern. statistics new cases per day cases by islands (as of 22 april 2022) island cases reference apolima 0 manono 5 savai'i 525 upolu 6,201 3/4 6,731