As Macao’s biggest hotel with 4,000 rooms, Cotai property is set to host rising number of local residents returning home, especially from Hong Kong.
Covid-19 measures
Decision follows partial relaxation of entry ban on foreigners which allowed Indonesian and Filipino helpers back into Macao.
Potential employees must be double-jabbed and can only work in certain households; pilot scheme may open the door to foreign teachers in future.
Temporary medical facilities would be built in and around the Macao East Asian Games Dome in event of major Covid-19 outbreak.
Health chief also concerned about availability of quarantine hotel rooms and what to do if many new arrivals test positive for Covid-19.
Other Covid-19 news: most public servants believed to have been vaccinated; only six residents permanently excused from inoculation for health reasons.
City state able to relax Covid-19 restrictions thanks to high rate of inoculation which reduces possibility of serious conditions or death.
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