A massive operation to clean and disinfect the residential buildings of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Macao was completed yesterday, according to the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM).
The bureau pointed out that it cooperated with both Macao Residue System Company and cleaning contractors to send more staff to carry out the cleaning in areas such as nearby streets and the buildings’ communal areas to reduce the risk of the pandemic spreading.
In related news, the bureau said that no abnormalities were found in the retests of cold-chain aquatic products imported from India.
The bureau noted that the General Administration of Customs in Beijing announced yesterday that a packaging sample of frozen aquatic products imported from an enterprise producing aquatic products in India tested positive during nucleic acid tests (NATs).
The bureau immediately launched measures such as source tracing and investigating the enterprise’s products in Macao. Local businesses were requested to seal the concerned enterprise’s products at once, while samples were again collected for retesting which resulted in no abnormalities.
Moreover, product import applications by the affected enterprise were suspended from yesterday onwards.
The bureau has collected samples of frozen and chilled aquatic products imported from India and their outer and inner packaging for multiple NATs since 2020. No positive results for Covid-19 have been found.
IAM has also conducted the disinfection and sample testing of all products imported from India in accordance with the pandemic prevention measures, with only products passing inspections allowed to enter Macao, The Macau Post Daily reported.
