HK: Macao will shut almost all commercial and industrial businesses which includes its casinos for just one week from Mon, as authorities race to curb a surge of COVID-19 infections in the tour’s biggest gambling centre.
Essential services including resorts, supermarkets and medical stores will however stay open, city authorities said as they announced the measures in a press conference on Saturday.
The particular announcement came as Macau reported 71 new COVID situations on Saturday (Jul 9), taking the complete to 1, 374 considering that mid-June. More than seventeen, 000 people are in quarantine, authorities possess said.
Private sector organisations have added 2 hotels in well-known casino resorts to be used as COVID-19 medical facilities from Friday as they try to raise capacity to handle the surge of bacterial infections.
More than 90 per cent of Macau’s residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 but this is the first time the city has had to grapple with the fast-spreading Omicron variant.