The Macau government started on Saturday its fourth round of selling facemasks to residents and non-resident workers at the fixed price of 8 patacas (US$1) for 10 masks.
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A resident has fallen victim to an online shopping scam for facemasks through social media — the Judiciary Police (PJ) warns the public to be careful when buying goods on the Internet.
The Hong Kong-based Indonesian Consulate-General has handed out 5,000 facemasks to Indonesian migrant workers in Macau, public broadcaster TDM-Radio Macau reported on Sunday.
A total of 30 cases of suspected purchases of facemasks using other people’s Macau ID cards have been investigated by the police.
Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said that more than one million government-arranged facemasks were sold today.
The Macau government said that it will start selling facemasks for children aged between three and eight Wednesday.
A local man who “maliciously” damaged 320 facemasks after he smeared saliva and mucus on 32 packs of facemasks this week, faces up to 10 years in prison.
A man who smeared mucus and saliva on 320 facemasks on Monday was arrested by the police and transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) Wednesday morning.
A local citizen spat on 30 packets of facemasks resulting in 300 having to be scrapped.
