Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security u visited Macao Friday for a meeting with Chief Executive to learn about the city’s work in safeguarding national security and its latest development.
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Since the launch of the Health Bureau (SSM) annual medical subsidy programme – known as health vouchers – in 2009, its officials have carried out 3,711 inspections in private clinics and medical institutions that have joined the programme and transferred 504 cases to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) for allegedly defrauding the government through the illegal use of the vouchers.
The Macau International Airport saw hundreds of passengers on Thursday – an oddity during the pandemic – as 362 stranded Filipino nationals flew home after being stranded in the city for up to four months.
Over 300 Filipinos nationals returned to Manila on Thursday via a chartered flight organised by the Philippine Consulate General in Macao.
Two travellers who arrived in Macao on Wednesday who had been in Beijing 14 days prior were immediately transferred to 14 days of quarantine and medical observation at one of the government’s “quarantine hotels”.
A 7-seater people carrier and an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman crashed in Avenida de Horta e Costa on Wednesday evening, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) said.
877 Macao residents have registered for the local government’s special ferry service – which started on Wednesday – for them upon arrival at Hong Kong’s airport from overseas to be able to return to Macao without having to go through quarantine in Hong Kong.
The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) said in a statement on Wednesday that the self-service application for local permanent ID cards’ renewal has now been extended to 24 hours every day.
An additional 22 imported seafood samples from 10 countries and regions were given a nucleic acid test (NAT) on Tuesday, and the results were all negative for COVID-19.