The number of new coronavirus cases in Hong Kong dropped to just nine on Monday – the lowest since the beginning of July.
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Secondary schools, primary schools and kindergartens will return to in-class teaching at the beginning of September.
Part of a metal-framed structure in the ongoing reconstruction project of the corridor between Zhuhai’s Gongbei checkpoint and Macao’s Barrier Gate checkpoint collapsed near the Gongbei side on Saturday afternoon.
Macao’s preliminary balance of payments (BOP) for last year recorded a surplus of MOP 12.1 billion.
A row of former textile factory buildings situated in an area planned for the city’s first-ever tyre park in Taipa need to be demolished as they are posing an environmental hygiene threat to the nearby residential neighbourhoods.
The four empty lots in Taipa will be used for permanent public facilities in the future, said Secretary for Administration and Justice Cheong Weng Chon.
Hong Kong continues to see a declining trend in coronavirus cases with about 28 cases expected on Friday.
Kiang Wu Hospital will join the government’s nucleic acid testing (NAT) programme on Monday, adding 1,000 places for COVID-19 testing per day.
Under the nucleic acid testing (NAT scheme, the first test is free of charge for all Macao residents and non-resident workers (informally known as blue card holders), but follow-up tests cost MOP 120 each.