All the fish vendors in the city’s wet markets have undergone a one-off nucleic acid test, involving 818 people in total, and none of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
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From late this month, EVA Air will operate five flights from Macao to Taipei where local passengers can take transfer flights to London and France, as part of the Macao government’s special measure to help Macao residents who are enrolled overseas to fly to the respective countries after their summer break here.
Hong Kong’s third wave of COVID-19 continued to show signs of slowing down as the city marked a week of recording only double-digit daily increases to its infected tally
Hong Kong’s Covid-19 tally surpassed 4,000 on Saturday, as 69 new cases were recorded.
The government announced that EVA Air will have five flights from Macao to Europe to allow the return of students enrolled in universities abroad.
The University of Macau (UM) said that it has launched a health programme in conjunction with Caritas Macau for overseas Filipino workers.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced on Friday that the government will introduce a universal, voluntary coronavirus testing scheme that could cover millions of Hong Kong people.
From 6 am today, all those arriving in Macao from Hong Kong must present a nucleic acid test (NAT) certificate confirming that they have tested negative for Covid-19 within the past 24 hours, otherwise they will be refused entry.
The Macao government will lower the current testing fee of MOP 180 to MOP 120 for its nucleic acid testing (NAT) scheme from Wednesday next week.