The National Immigration Administration of China has announced that from 23 September, all mainland China residents can visit Macao with individual and group travel visas.
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Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, will pay a six-day working visit to Beijing from tomorrow, the Macao Government Information Bureau (GCS) announced today.
The central government will lift its 14-day quarantine requirement for all arrivals from Macao from tomorrow – meaning that they can enter all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the mainland without having to undergo quarantine from tomorrow.
The government has decided that those aged below 18 will now have their samples collected under its NAT scheme only via nasopharyngeal swabs.
An exhibition entitled “Pirates in the Waters of Macao (1854-1935)” will be held from next Wednesday to 31 January, “presenting the phenomenon of piracy in the surrounding waters of Macao and the multiple meanings it had for Macao.”
The Federal Register of the United States has announced the lifting of special measures imposed on Macao’s Delta Asia Bank, and the withdrawal of the Notice of Finding involving the local bank.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U announced today at a press conference that the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) will resume for residents of Zhuhai from Wednesday, 12 August.
The government has rebooked the 270-room Regency Art Hotel – which is located on Taipa Island – and will be used as a government-designated hotel for quarantine starting tomorrow.
Due to the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Macao's population fell by 10,700 quarter-on-quarter to 685,400 at the end of the second quarter
Two more elderly patients died and Hong Kong could see around 65 new Covid-19 cases today.
Macao’s COVID-19 testing capability has been further raised from 16,000 to 23,000 people per day, equivalent to some 3.4% of the city’s population.
All the fish vendors in the city’s wet markets have undergone a one-off nucleic acid test, involving 818 people in total, and none of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus.