Parents are turning out in large numbers with their children to be immunized.
KHJ News visited the Tafuna Community Health Center yesterday and this morning and witnessed a packed waiting area, with people spilling out into a tent set up outside.
Alhough the waiting was long arents expressed appreciation to the Department of Health for providing the vaccination service.
A father with two infants from Aasu, Pita Avea, said he arrived around 7 and will not mind waiting the whole day as long as his children get their shots.
Faameleke Aloese, who was there with her infant son said she arrived at 6 and they were still waiting for her son’s name to be called three hours later. She admitted that she had not doen her motherly duty of ensuring her son’s vaacinations were up to date.
Several high school students were also in the crowd. 
Three students from Iakina Academy said their names were on their school’s list to be sent home for their MMR shots as their school records showed they didnt have them.
The other two were verified by medical personnel to have already received their MMR vaccination.
The Tafuna Commmunity Center at Tafuna is opened until 8 pm .
Eastside residents are also crowding the Fagaalu well baby clinic.
Meanwhile at Pago Pago International Airport Health Director Motusa Tuileama Nua and Deputy Director Papalii Marion Fitisemanu met with officials of both Samoa Airways and Talofa Airways and informed them of heightened surveillance of passengers under the public health emergency declaration. 
As per the Health Director when an aircraft arrives, DOH personnel will enter and give a briefing.
All American Samoa residents and foreign travelers with proof of immunization, that is an immunization card or a letter from a doctor verifying they have been immunized for measles, will be allowed to disembark.
Howevber foreigners who do not have the documentation will not be allowed to leave the aircraft.
And they must depart on the same flight that they arrive on.
Local residents are continuing to travel to Samoa despite the measles epidemic there. 
This morning Dr. Monita Adip, in between giving MMR shots, was advising resident travelers.
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Another DOH team was checking passengers on arrival.
