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Macao health officials ease cross-border travel restrictions after assessing latest Covid-19 developments in neighbouring regions.
Triple-jabbed, 41-year-old man urgently needed at city’s power stations, but will have to wait at the Public Health Clinical Centre in Coloane until given the all-clear.
Easter weekend drive at Macao Forum sees 4,700 over-threes get jabbed; eight more patients undergoing treatment in isolation.
Health Bureau will continue to station mobile vaccination station around city, reaching out to elderly, bedridden and those with impaired mobility.
Temporary medical facilities would be built in and around the Macao East Asian Games Dome in event of major Covid-19 outbreak.
Danger of community transmission means that NAT validity for arrivals from Guangdong will remain at 24 hours.
Operating all day until 5:30 pm, the vaccination station is specifically aimed at the elderly and infirm living nearby; volunteers on hand to assist with transport.