Macau’s gaming industry will reopen its doors tonight after its 15-day shutdown by the government as part of the authorities’ fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Day: February 19, 2020
Macau gaming operator Sands China said on Wednesday that “regarding a recent video circulating on social media purporting to show Sands China’s current team member accommodations, Sands China wishes to clarify that the video in question was taken during a typhoon in the past and shows a temporary rest area prepared for team members on duty.”
MGM donated 500,000 facemasks to the Macau government to support its anti-novel coronavirus (COVID-19) measures.
Macau-based Portuguese bank BNU said in a statement that it has donated MOP 100,000 (US$12,500) to Roman-Catholic social service organisation Caritas Macau
The Macau Government has suspended from Wednesday the sea links between Macau and the port of Fuyong, which serves the airport of Shenzhen, in China’s Guangdong province.
With no new COVID-19 cases having been confirmed in Macau for two weeks does not mean that the epidemic in the city is over.
Two female drug mules from Guinea have been caught smuggling 130 pellets of cocaine weighing 2,080 grammes worth a total of about 6.8 million patacas as they entered Macau via the airport.