Travel restrictions during virus outbreak barred many potential passengers from boarding; traffic accidents reduced due to strengthened safety management.
Macao Covid-19 outbreak
Gaming and catering industries especially hard hit; many say they can barely cover living expenses, savings likely to run out soon, plead for border reopening.
Unemployed construction and gaming industry workers swell jobless numbers to 15,600; Covid-19 outbreak largely to blame.
Edf Mayfair Court is placed on lockdown; 73-year-old patient’s workplace areas, including two Inner Harbour ferry piers, have been assigned Yellow Zones.
Measure starts at midnight, in place for one month, with only a few exemptions; authorities working to reduce waiting time for airport arrivals.
More than 60,000 NATs under way in Taipa with results expected first thing tomorrow after 26-year-old male tests positive for Covid-19.
Emergency mass-testing follows discovery by authorities in Zhuhai of Taipa supermarket worker with Covid-19; elderly, disabled and young children included in drive.
People who work away from home, and high-risk cleaners, food deliverers and bus and taxi drivers, excused of regular testing as Covid-19 threat subsides.
Loss comes at a time when Macao’s casinos were forced shut and partial lockdown was put in place by government to tackle Covid-19 outbreak that started on 18 June.
