There are 53 new positive cases of Covid-19 in Guam.
This comes as the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention issues a Level 4 alert for Guam, which means there is a very high level of Covid-19 on the island.
The CDC is warning people to avoid all travel to the US territory.
There have been a total of 6,602 reported cases with 106 deaths to date from Covid-19.
Currently, there are 1,605 people in active isolation.
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The government in Guam has been working to lower its Covid Area Risk Score, a way of measuring new cases, the effectiveness of testing and the rate of spread.
To stop the spread of Covid-19 they say it needs to be below 2.5 and currently it is at 9.0.
The lead up to the Thanksgiving holiday has also been a cause for concern, with the government saying they would only lift restrictions if they reached a CAR score of below 5.0
PNG numbers also up sharply.
Papua New Guinea has reported 18 new confirmed cases of Covid-19.
They are all in West New Britain province.
The new cases are confirmed as being from Talasea District
It brings the islands regional province's total number to date to 31.
The youngest of the new cases is 4 years old and the oldest is 70.
Five of the new cases have symptoms such as fever, cough, headache, chills and sore throat.
Ten reportedly had contact with previously-identified positive cases.
The latest figures from the National Pandemic Response Controller David Manning take PNG's total number of confirmed cases of the virus to 630.
His office says the rapid response team continues with contact tracing.
To date, 16 of the 22 provinces in the country have confirmed cases of Covid-19.
