From today, Macao residents arriving from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines and transferring to Macao via special ferry need certification saying they have tested negative from COVID-19.
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The Macau International Airport saw hundreds of passengers on Thursday – an oddity during the pandemic – as 362 stranded Filipino nationals flew home after being stranded in the city for up to four months.
Over 300 Filipinos nationals returned to Manila on Thursday via a chartered flight organised by the Philippine Consulate General in Macao.
A total of 163 Filipino workers who were stranded in Macau due to the COVID-19 travel ban are now back in the Philippines.
Discussions with concerned airlines to airlift stranded Filipinos in Macau has met a setback.
The Philippines partially lifted a travel ban on Macau and Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Philippine nationals stranded in Macau will be able to return to their home country on special Philippine Airlines flights next week.
Macau’s number of non-resident (imported) workers fell by 474 last month compared with the same month of last year, the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) has announced. At the end of last month, the number of non-resident workers stood at 180,277, compared with 182,178 in the previous month and 180,751 a year earlier. Mainlanders accounted […]