The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced that it has decided to suspend a new measure which would have required players and performers in all local sports contests to be tested for COVID-19 every seven days.
Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre
The local government will lift its 14-day quarantine requirement for arrivals from Qingdao from noon today as no local COVID-19 case has been reported in the port city for over 14 days ago.
The Health Bureau has concluded that those who have recently entered Macao after having been in Xinjiang’s prefecture of Kashgar within the past 14 days pose a low Covid-19 risk to Macao.
The government has carried out a string of measures in preparation for a possible Covid-19 rebound in Macao as winter is approaching.
All those who had been in Qingdao during the 14 days prior to their arrival here must undergo 14 days of mandatory quarantine and medical observation at a government-designated hotel.
Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, reassured residents during Monday’s press conference that holding the Macau Grand Prix this year would “certainly” not increase the risk of local Covid-19 transmission in the city.
The Macao government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced that crew members of cargo ships plying the Hong Kong-Macao route no longer have to undergo quarantine during their stay in Macao, but they continue to be subjected to COVID-19 testing every seven days, considering that Hong Kong’s COVID-19 epidemic has now eased.
From this week the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre will reschedule its regular press conferences to every Monday and Thursday, as Macao’s COVID-19 epidemic has been constantly easing.
Macao’s 46th confirmed novel coronavirus patient was discharged today and transferred to Centro Clínico de Saúde Pública for a 14-day recovery isolation period.