Macau COVID-19 Response Coordination Center announced today that from 0:00 on Saturday (15th), the quarantine time for COVID-19 for Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign inbound people will be reduced from "7+3+4" to "7+3", that is, maintaining 7-day centralized medical observation and 3-day self-health management, and canceling 4-day self-health monitoring.
nucleic acid tests times during the self-health management period, reducing the number of 5 times currently required to 3 times. After completing the 7-day centralized medical observation, relevant people only need to undergo nucleic acid tests once a day during the 3-day self-health management period calculated on the second day. They no longer need to continue health monitoring on the 4th to 7th days, and cancel nucleic acid tests on the 5th and 7th days.
At the same time, cases that test positive after entry will no longer be contagious, will be reduced from the minimum centralized medical observation of 10 days from the second day after entry to a minimum of 7 days.
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Gradually restores mainland tour groups to Australia and electronic visas
Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region Ho Iat Seng previously announced a series of measures to resume mainland tour groups that had been suspended for three years, and restore electronic visas with the mainland, hoping to be implemented from the end of October to early November. The Macau government has also negotiated with the Mainland on large-scale infrastructure matters. For example, after coordination with the Mainland, the Macau Light Rail can use Guanzhakou land to connect to Qingmao Port , and the Macau Airport will also expand and expand the runway and tarmac.
Ho Iat Seng said that outbound travel in the mainland has been suspended for nearly three years. It is currently estimated that it will take at least one month to prepare for the restoration of travel groups. It is now necessary to discuss with mainland travel agencies and relevant parties. It is expected that a tour group will go to Australia as early as November, and the electronic visa is expected to be implemented from the end of October to early November.
. Ho Iat Seng said that every region decides according to its own needs and he will not comment. Currently, Macau residents do not need to be quarantined when they go to the mainland. They only need to hold a 48-hour negative verification certificate. As for whether they can strive for a longer verification and verification validity period, they must be handled in accordance with relevant rules.
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National Day Golden Week Tourism Industry Numbers are Beautiful
Macau National Day "Golden Week" passenger numbers are Beautiful. The number of tourists visiting Macau in the first 4 days was recorded in total, with an average daily number of 29,297. increased by 2172.8% compared with the average number of people on the National Day gold Sunday in 2021 (1289). Compared with the average daily number of people in September 2022 (19601), an increase of 49.5%.
It is reported that the average daily number of passengers in the first four days exceeded 29,000, and on October 1, it recorded more than 37,000, which is the second highest recorded by the number of inbound passengers this year so far. This reflects that tourists' desire to travel to Macau is increasing, and it will help support Macau's tourism economy and thus drive the recovery of tourism and related industries.
Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said after Saturday's National Day reception that he is striving for the validity period of nucleic acid testing when entering and leaving Zhuhai and Macau, from 48 hours to 72 hours. As for customs clearance in Hong Kong and Macao, he reiterated that visitors who depart from Hong Kong to Macao must still be quarantined and quarantined. When the mainland relaxes the current entry policy, Macao will also relax relevant entry requirements simultaneously.
(Editor Yang Bingxin)
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