Health officials aim to test 1 million residents a day; CE promises no lockdown, hopes for ‘rainbow after the storm’.
Hong Kong
Bookings for travellers from Hong Kong planning to stay other hotels cancelled; Guangdong reports 20 imported cases from Hong Kong on Monday.
Confirmed patient, a triple-jabbed, 58-year-old local man, is being treated in isolation; other two cases classed as asymptomatic and imported.
Shenzhen tycoon Bill Wong’s new carrier granted permission to carry passengers and cargo on 104 routes with no frequency limits.
Authorities race to contain virus with stricter social distancing rules as latest death toll includes 11-month-old girl.
Two of the new patients travelled with a woman whose asymptomatic case was announced last Wednesday; all are in isolation in Coloane.
Steep rise of novel coronavirus cases in Hong Kong prompts urgent appeal for everyone to get jabbed as Macao reports 23 imported cases in a month.
Chief executive previously rejected the idea but now says the campaign would be considered depending on the situation as new cases exceed 3,600 today.
From Monday, travellers from both Hong Kong and Taiwan face 14 days hotel quarantine followed by a week’s self-health management.