City

16 Dec 2022

Macao to replace hotel quarantine measure with five-day home quarantine from midnight tonight

Negative 48-hour NAT needed when departing for Macao; city recorded 66 new symptomatic cases yesterday; tourists without homes will still need to quarantine at a hotel while all arrivals will not be able to travel to mainland China for another three days.

15 Dec 2022

45 new symptomatic cases in Macao on Wednesday

New criteria in line with mainland China for assessing number of cases omits asymptomatic individuals.

15 Dec 2022

Covid-19 infection rate likely to peak early January: health chief

Alvis Lo acknowledges that under new anti-Covid-19 landscape, official statistics tend to underestimate the ‘real’ number of cases in Macao.

15 Dec 2022

Macao recorded 402 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday

People testing positive in RATs no longer need to do NATs, as they are now classified as positive for Covid-19 and must conduct online self-assessment at once.

15 Dec 2022

Home Quarantine Information Network launched to provide online assistance

Website only in Chinese and Portuguese; anyone with positive RAT or NAT can conduct a self-assessment via government’s electronic platform.

14 Dec 2022

24-hour negative NAT results for cross-border travellers extended through 21 December

Measure extended for fourth time; authorities say measure will be adjusted according to pandemic situations in Macao and Zhuhai.

14 Dec 2022

‘Anti-pandemic packages’ to be distributed to public from today through 18 December

People in Macao can collect packages from 35 designated venues; each resident can now only buy up to five RAT kits and one box of antipyretics.

14 Dec 2022

Unvaccinated 80-year-old woman confirmed as Macao’s seventh Covid-related fatality

Diabetic woman suffered from hypertension, coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease; woman tested positive in NAT on Monday.

13 Dec 2022

City registered 382 new Covid-19 cases yesterday; Macao hotels can receive positive cases from tomorrow

Figure is again nearly double the cases recorded in previous day, with total positive cases since 28 November now standing at 923; close contacts can also stay in any hotel starting tomorrow.