Dr. Leong Iek Hou, from the Communicable Disease Prevention and Disease Surveillance Unit, says Covid is now ‘a disease like flu’.
On yesterday’s World No Tobacco Day, Health Bureau chief Dr Alvis Lo reiterated the government’s commitment to a smoke-free environment.
Some 340 accommodation units are being built for senior physicians, mostly from mainland China, at the Islands Healthcare Complex in Cotai.
Graft officials from Malaysia have reiterated their claim that the wanted businessman is lying low somewhere in the territory – a claim Macao authorities have previously denied.
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 Labour Affairs Bureau says it carried out thousands of inspections in 2022 and imposed penalties in 91 cases for unsafe working conditions.
The move comes as health authorities hope to contain a wave of Covid-19 infections that has seen at least 104 people hospitalised this month.
Health officials say Macao is at a “periodic peak of Covid-19 infection” and remind residents to keep up with their vaccinations.
