Figure is again nearly double the cases recorded in previous day, with total positive cases since 28 November now standing at 923; close contacts can also stay in any hotel starting tomorrow.
Macao Covid-19 quarantine
City to open step by step; close contacts allowed to home quarantine; ‘5+3’ travellers will no longer have to check into red code hotels after five days’ hotel quarantine; government expects up to 80% of population to get Covid-19.
Preparations for festive season start to take shape as Autumn Book Culture Festival opens showcasing tens of thousands of new publications.
List of home requirements include families not being able to go to restaurants, parties, take public buses and more; people undergoing +3 Covid-19 regulation must also stay in separate rooms.
Travellers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries will now need to spend five days in a hotel – as opposed to seven – and undergo three days’ home quarantine with a red health code.
Guangzhou reports 16 new Covid-19 cases and 53 asymptomatic cases; Partial shut-down in Zhongshan halts almost all social and commercial activity.
No immediate change to quarantine regulations; vaccine for under-fives due next month or in November.
Anyone who needs to take NAT within three months of discharge will have to pay MOP 150 – thrice normal cost – for individual-sample test.
Virus incubation period is one week: lessening quarantine time would expose city to greater risk, says health official.
