Phone campaign targets senior citizens, while schools regularly quiz parents whether their children have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Easing of travel restrictions follows encouraging results from last week’s mass NAT drive.
Flurry of new regulations aims to curb travel and protect the city from further Covid-19 cases, especially the virulent Delta strain.
The local government has raised from today the quota for its nucleic acid testing (NAT) scheme’s online appointment system to 19,000 people per day.
The University Hospital run by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has applied to join the government’s NAT scheme.
The government has decided that those aged below 18 will now have their samples collected under its NAT scheme only via nasopharyngeal swabs.
Macao’s COVID-19 testing capability has been further raised from 16,000 to 23,000 people per day, equivalent to some 3.4% of the city’s population.
All the fish vendors in the city’s wet markets have undergone a one-off nucleic acid test, involving 818 people in total, and none of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that the online appointment system for the local government’s NAT scheme had become fully booked “in a short time” on Tuesday morning due to today’s lifting of Guangdong’s quarantine requirement.