Macau's international banking assets rose 12.7 per cent year-on-year to 1.71 trillion patacas (US$214 billion) at the end of last year.
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Visitors and non-resident workers have to go into the 14-day quarantine at the Pousada Marina Infante hotel in Cotai and pay a fee, while local residents can choose to go into quarantine either in their home or at the hotel.
The Macau Science Centre (MSC) said its Convention Centre has cancelled all activities until the end of March.
There is still no date yet for schools to resume classes, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) said in a statement on Wednesday.
Sands China is donating MOP 1.65 million to 33 elderly and rehabilitation centres indicated by the Social Welfare Bureau to assist them in tackling the spread of the COVID-19 and safeguard the health of their over 3,100 users.
The financial reserves of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) gained a record 5.6% last year, when they reached around MOP 580 billion (US$72.5 billion).
Former policy secretary for social affairs and culture, Alexis Tam Chon Weng, has been appointed director of the Macau Economic and Trade Office to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva and director of the Macau Economic and Trade Office to the European Union in Brussels.
Anyone, including locals, who have been in South Korea 14 days before entering Macau will stay under medical surveillance for 14 days.
MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes admitted that the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting Macau’s tourism “very much”.
Macau's number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients decreased to three when one more of the initially 10 patients was discharged from hospital.
The Macau Government will review the legal diploma that requires at least two years of registration in the Financial Services Bureau for SMEs to apply for existing support plans.
Sands China has donated 1 million patacas (US$125,000) to four social service organisations in the city to help them assist the community's most vulnerable cope with the fallout from the COVID-19 epidemic.