HONG KONG: Macao extended the COVID-19 restrictions such as the closure of bars, cinemas, hair salons and spas and outdoor recreational areas from Thursday (Jun 23), its chief executive said as the planet’s biggest gambling center battles to suppress a rise in locally transmitted cases.
Casinos are allowed to remain open while theatres, fitness centres, and leisure time facilities must halt operations from 5pm local time upon Thursday, Ho Iat Seng said inside a statement on the government’s website.
Only takeaway is permitted from dining facilities.
Macao’s over 600, 000 occupants were required to undergo a second round associated with mass testing this week, as the number of contaminated people jumped in order to more than 100 cases.
Positive situations include those functioning or visiting the particular casinos with a quantity of them related to a marriage banquet that was kept inside SJM Holding’s Grand Lisboa Palace.
A hotel and casino holiday resort on Macao’s primary peninsula was secured down by regulators on Tuesday due to a coronavirus infection, with some 700 people forced to quarantine.
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