75-year-old victim had been vaccinated twice; 88 new Covid-19 cases admitted to isolation and treatment facilities on Wednesday.
Macao Covid-19
Travellers from China face tighter restrictions as pandemic surges; South Korea, India and Italy also wary in wake of zero-Covid policy’s cancellation.
Number of people testing positive expected to remain high for now; low possibility of retesting positive within 3-6 months.
Health workers struggle to carry out their jobs in face of pandemic; up to 40% of staff at Kiang Wu Hospital and about a quarter of all public health service employees affected.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao says one quarter of local hospital workers have also tested positive and city’s contagion will peak this or next week.
New regulation spells end of quarantine in Macao after almost three years, however 72-hour NAT validity to enter city still needed.
Tertiary educational institutions to resume activities as scheduled on 3 January.
Only 6% of city’s 6,600 medical facilities’ beds currently occupied by positive cases; at least 10% of Macao’s frontline workers have tested positive for Covid-19.
Triple jabbed 95-year-old woman with chronic medical issues becomes city’s latest fatality related to disease.
