Samoa to shut down amid measles disaster

By Ben McKay
Updated December 4 2019 - 3:28pm, first published 3:23pm
Samoa's prime minister has ordered businesses closed to allow for a nationwide measles vaccination.
Samoa's prime minister has ordered businesses closed to allow for a nationwide measles vaccination.

Samoan families have been asked to stay home and hang red flags outside their homes if they need vaccinations in a last-gasp effort to inoculate the country from a deadly measles outbreak.

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