Family members will be able to make limited visits to care homes, rehabilitation centres and detoxification facilities over the festive season.
The Social Welfare Bureau said that following consultations with the Health Bureau and considering families’ “intense desire” to see their relatives, limited visitation to the facilities will be resumed from today.
Visits to the city’s residential care homes and rehabilitation centres were suspended on 9 December due to the recent Covid-19 pandemic development in Macao. All service users were prohibited from leaving their residential care homes and rehabilitation centres.
From now on, each service user can receive just one 30-minute visit per day, with a maximum of two visitors.
Relatives or friends who intend to visit must submit a request to the care homes at least 24 hours in advance, and their visit will only be allowed with the approval of the facilities and according to the schedule indicated. Care homes can determine an appropriate maximum number of people visiting at the same time.
Visitors will be required to show their negative rapid antigen test (RAT) results valid for two hours, which are shown on their Health Code upon entering the care homes. They will also be required to comply with all Covid-19 prevention requirements, including showing their green Health Code after scanning the venue codes of the premises, and undergoing a temperature check.
All visitors and service users must wear facemasks rated N95, KN95, or FFP2 at all times and keep a distance of at least a metre. During the visit, they should not carry out any activities that require the removal of their facemasks, such as eating and drinking.
Visitors will be able to take in supplies to be delivered to residents after proper disinfection procedures.
The bureau will revise and announce further arrangements in due course depending on the development of the Covid-19 pandemic.
