Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, Macau’s number of visitor arrivals dropped 16.8% year-on-year to 2.85 million in January.
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Entertainment venues, such as cinemas and gyms can reopen for business on Monday. Meanwhile, local schools could resume in late April or even earlier.
Visitors and non-resident workers have to go into the 14-day quarantine at the Pousada Marina Infante hotel in Cotai and pay a fee, while local residents can choose to go into quarantine either in their home or at the hotel.
The Macau Science Centre (MSC) said its Convention Centre has cancelled all activities until the end of March.
Anyone, including locals, who have been in South Korea 14 days before entering Macau will stay under medical surveillance for 14 days.
MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes admitted that the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting Macau’s tourism “very much”.
Macau’s number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients decreased to three when one more of the initially 10 patients was discharged from hospital.
The Macau Government will review the legal diploma that requires at least two years of registration in the Financial Services Bureau for SMEs to apply for existing support plans.
Sands China has donated 1 million patacas (US$125,000) to four social service organisations in the city to help them assist the community’s most vulnerable cope with the fallout from the COVID-19 epidemic.