Macao’s COVID-19 testing capability has been further raised from 16,000 to 23,000 people per day, equivalent to some 3.4% of the city’s population.
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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.
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.
The Economic Services Bureau (DSE) reminded the public in a statement on Sunday that its “special feature shops programme” was launched last month to promote 41 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and prepare them for the post-Covid-19 reopening of the city.
The 2020 ASEAN Gaming Summit that was to take place in Macao has been cancelled, announced today by its organisers.
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.