All arrivals must be fully vaccinated or present a valid excuse and undergo 14 days medical observation quarantine.
Hong Kong
Limit set at 2,000 per day; Macao authorities have yet to announce whether they will offer similar ease of travel.
Operation Thunderbolt targeted triad gangs over three months, seizing millions of dollars in illegal funds in the run-up to National Day in October.
Officers believe cash ferried across the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge may have been laundered in the city’s casinos; five suspects released on bail.
Doubling the schedule indicates that there is increasing demand for travel between the two cities.
The Lion City opens doors even to unvaccinated travellers – but they will have to go into quarantine when they come back to Macao.
While Covid-19 is under control locally, authorities fear possible effects from abroad, and extend precautions until next April.
Two weeks’ compulsory home quarantine awaits returnees, who must be tested during and after their confinement as authorities continue to battle Covid-19.
Government looking ahead to relaxing border restrictions and Covid-19 regulations in general, as jab rate nears 40 per cent.