Thai authorities on Friday said arrivals from Macau and five other jurisdictions would have to issue daily reports on their health.
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Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC) has classified Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Italy, Iran, France and Germany as “countries/administrative regions at risk for COVID-19.
The Macau government’s Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) issued on Saturday a Level 2 Travel Alert to Italy.
The Macau government has imposed 14-day medical surveillance in isolation on arrivals who had been to Italy or Iran within the past 14 days prior to their entry into Macau.
1.09 million guests checked into Macau’s 122 hotels and guesthouses last month, a year-on-year decrease of 11.4%.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, Macau’s number of visitor arrivals dropped 16.8% year-on-year to 2.85 million in January.
The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement Thursday that smoking will be banned in all public parks from Sunday.
MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes admitted that the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting Macau’s tourism “very much”.
MGM said that to fulfil its corporate social responsibility it has launched the “MGM SME Anti-epidemic Support” programme as part of the fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic.