Anyone who needs to take NAT within three months of discharge will have to pay MOP 150 – thrice normal cost – for individual-sample test.
Wong Weng Man
Lifting restrictions is another small step toward normalisation of travel, after granting citizens of 41 countries permission to enter at beginning of September; all visitors must still undergo 7-day quarantine.
Health Bureau will continue to press city’s testing institutions to further reduce their NAT fees, which are more expensive than mainland China’s but much cheaper than Hong Kong’s.
Situation of NRWs under review; measures taken to reduce waiting times at airport but international arrivals can still expect to have to hang about for several hours.
Worker may have been infected while delivering meals or collecting rubbish; no other cases detected; hotel’s high-risk workers now taking NAT daily.
Health chief Wong Weng Man stresses employers should ensure staff always undergo tests in compliance with the officially required frequencies.
