Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde S. Januário Hospital Centre, said that the local government will continue its fight against the COVID-19 threat “as a matter of routine”, coinciding with the gradual restoration of normality in the community with the city’s COVID-19 spread risk “under control”.
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Firefighters battled a smoky fire that gutted a hut on the rooftop of Ling Nan Building in Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa in Toi San district on Thursday, Kuok Pan, head of the fire station in Areia Preta district told reporters at the scene on Thursday.
A “severely decomposed” carcass of a Chinese white dolphin was found off the rocky shoreline near Tam Kung Temple in Coloane on Thursday, statements from the Marine and Water Bureau (DSAMA) and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said on Thursday.
The Communications Museum opens to the public free of charge from today to Monday to celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Sunday and the International Museum Day (IMD) on Monday, according to a statement from the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau (CTT) on Thursday.
The “Macau Tourism Branding and Media Effectiveness Evaluation” of four mega-events held last year all reached “a high level of public awareness and a good to great level of satisfaction”.
The Macau government’s current NAT scheme at the Taipa Ferry Terminal will be extended from today to mainlanders based on some exemptions.
Macau has had no new imported COVID-19 cases for 35 consecutive days since April 8 – another patient discharged today, leaving only 2 hospitalised.
The Macau government has confirmed that it has received a request on behalf of ex-secretary for transport and public works Ao Man Long to serve the remainder of his 29-year prison sentence in Portugal, the Portuguese-language daily Hoje Macau (“Today Macau”) reported on Tuesday.
A local medical team will join a national medical team today which will then depart from Chongqing for Algeria to support the North African country in fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.