Macau Says First 200K COVID-Tests Negative, as Casinos Anxiously Await Results
The Macau governance on Sunday ordered all residents to undergo day-by-day COVID-19 testing through today after a mortal who had visited neighboring Zhuhai on the Chinese mainland tried and true prescribed for the coronavirus o'er the weekend.
Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) regime officials instructed to each one of the city’s 600,000 residents to undergo speedy antigen testing on Sun and Monday inwards tell to tell that another outbreak wasn’t underway inwards the enclave.
Residents are to upload the results of their deuce tests to the government’s functionary website. Those who ut not risk of infection beingness tagged “red” or “yellow” inward the city’s online Health Code pandemic response system. For residents to get in Macau, they must show a “green” health code status at the abut gate.
The Macau Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center proclaimed today that the first of all 199,622 mental testing results uploaded to the government’s website and reviewed by wellness officers produced no COVID-19 positively charged samples.
The infected someone who had ventured into Zhuhai last-place weekend remains inwards isolation. The infected person’s apartment building and the supermarket where the somebody workings have got also been pose on lockdown.
Macau’s two-day citywide mass testing blitzkrieg comes less than a calendar week after the SAR moved to quarantine-free travel betwixt Zhuhai. The region’s casinos, which are the backbone of the area’s thriftiness and responsible for(p) for the bulk of the enclave’s employment, were allowed to reopen on July 23 next a 12-day government-ordered shutdown of gaming operations.
Casinos Seek Border Easing
The lifting of quarantine and medical observation requirements for arriving travelers from Zhuhai was supposed to live a major betterment in providing the region’s multibillion-dollar casinos with customers. Macau’s resorts have for years relied predominantly on the mainland for patrons.
In 2019, the mainland accounted for nearly 71% of the nearly 40 jillion travelers who visited Macau. Zhuhai, home to more than 2.4 billion people, borders Macau. The urban center is situated on the southern edge of the Guangdong Province inwards the Pearl River Delta.
Macau has been absent of meaningful visitant traffic throughout most of 2022. But July represented the casinos’ whip month of the total pandemic, as 144 gaming revenue totaled just $49 million. In pre-pandemic July 2019, the casinos took over $3 1000000000000 from their gambling patrons.
The casinos are apprehensively awaiting the replete(p) results of the two-day citywide testing bonanza. Another outbreak and subsequent lockdown — as required under Macau’s “zero COVID” adherence — would live added desolation to an already near-catastrophic situation for the Chinese gaming industry.
Current Case Count
Since Macau’s COVID-19 outbreak that began inward mid-June, the neighborhood has confirmed around 1,800 infections. Fourteen individuals remain infected and quarantined inward medical facilities.
Macau health officials say should a someone try out positive, irrespective of their symptoms, they should right away summon an ambulance to live transported to a infirmary for monitoring and capture isolation. All individuals living inwards the household as the infected individual are required to isolate at a government-approved quarantine site.
“The declarant and the co-living individuals must stay rest home and wait patiently for existence transferred to the quarantine site by the designated ambulance,” a statement from the Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center explained. “Relevant nucleic window pane testing will be ordered for all of them past the authorities.”