Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, the head of the Macao Government Tourism Office, says average daily visitor totals are now at about 50 percent of their pre-pandemic levels.
Day: May 29, 2023
Earlier modelling by researchers at the Macau University of Science and Technology projects that as many as 6,000 people a day could be getting infected.
The gaming, hospitality and restaurant trades saw the biggest increases in employment, according to the DSEC.
The Labour Affairs Bureau says it carried out thousands of inspections in 2022 and imposed penalties in 91 cases for unsafe working conditions.
The move is bound to upset Beijing, which has been investing billions of dollars in Portugal in sectors from energy to banking and insurance.