The government will launch the eighth round of its facemask purchase scheme today.
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Macau’s imports fell 30.3% year-on-year to 3.87 billion patacas last month.
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced the seventh round of mask distribution starting Monday (23rd).
The Macau government started on Saturday its fourth round of selling facemasks to residents and non-resident workers at the fixed price of 8 patacas (US$1) for 10 masks.
The Hong Kong-based Indonesian Consulate-General has handed out 5,000 facemasks to Indonesian migrant workers in Macau, public broadcaster TDM-Radio Macau reported on Sunday.
The Macau government said that it will start selling facemasks for children aged between three and eight Wednesday.
A local man who “maliciously” damaged 320 facemasks after he smeared saliva and mucus on 32 packs of facemasks this week, faces up to 10 years in prison.
A man who smeared mucus and saliva on 320 facemasks on Monday was arrested by the police and transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) Wednesday morning.
A local citizen spat on 30 packets of facemasks resulting in 300 having to be scrapped.