Macao’s Covid-19 death toll has risen to 30, after seven people died of the novel coronavirus disease on Monday.
It was the highest number of new Covid-19 fatalities reported in a day since Macao’s first Covid-19 deaths were confirmed in July this year, and also the highest since the government switched to an adjusted anti-Covid-19 approach that implicitly allows constant transmissions of the novel coronavirus in the community.
The seven cases, which were announced by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre yesterday, broke the record of daily new fatalities of three recorded on Monday last week.
The seven deceased, one male and six females, aged between 79 and 103, had all suffered from underlying health problems.
While three of the seven fatalities had not been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, one had received two Covid-19 jabs, and the other three had received three shots each.
The Centre also announced that 74 new patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease were admitted to the Health Bureau’s (SS) isolation and treatment facilities on Monday.
Meanwhile, the government yesterday cancelled all its regular mandatory nucleic acid tests (NAT) for all those working in occupations and professions that are potentially subject to a higher risk of getting infected with the novel coronavirus, as well as all other groups of people subject to a higher Covid-19 risk.
According to the new measure, the government has also cancelled its booking system for free NATs for those who suspect that they might have been infected with Covid-19. People who suspect that they might have been infected are only required to self-test themselves with a rapid antigen test kit, The Macau Post Daily reported.
