More than 313,000 tested so far proved negative; race is on to complete city’s second mass testing drive by 3 pm tomorrow.
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Health authorities praise emergency assistance from Guangdong, urge anyone who may not have been tested to do so as soon as possible.
Mass testing could finish early as more than three-quarters of the city’s population has been tested and more than 210,000 tests have confirmed negative so far.
City may have to go through a second or even a third round of NATs, depending on the results for this week’s test.
Officials are still thrashing out the details of who and how many can travel, but can only give the green light once Hong Kong reports no new local cases for 28 days.
As Covid-19 situation intensifies in the Guangdong province, staff and students are advised to stay in Macao until the end of the academic year.
Although vaccination rate has hit 20 per cent, the city is still in danger as Covid-19 cases proliferate in Guangdong.
Entry process would span six weeks, but could ease the complicated situation which has stranded many foreign workers in the city.
The University Hospital run by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) will join the government’s NAT scheme on Monday, with 500 places available per day.
