The Government of Macao admitted this Friday the possibility of a third round of tests for the population, after the Covid-19 outbreak that brought forward the end of the school year and suspended services and businesses in whole or in part.
“It is very likely that we will do a new round of tests to achieve the policy of zero cases”said the director of the Macau Health Services, Alvis Lo, during the daily press conference on the situation of Covid-19 in the territory.
Macao decreed this Sunday the state of immediate prevention, after the worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic, in which 170 cases were detected.
A general test for the population began on Thursday, which runs until this Thursday at 11:59 p.m. (4:59 p.m. in Lisbon), after some 677,000 people went to the 53 positions available for a first test at the beginning of the week. . .
In this second assessment, Lo said, “they were picked up until 3:00 p.m. [08h00 de Lisboa] 567,462 samples, that is 84% of the target audience”.
Meanwhile, Macau residents were also asked to take an antigen test at home on Wednesday. To date, five equipment of rapid tests.
After the new outbreak, the local authorities brought forward the school year, in addition to declaring the suspension of activity in all leisure and restaurant spaces, allowing only the service of put off.
In Macau, public services, the activity of museums and social facilities that provide day services (nurseries, special care centers and community centers) and visits to nursing homes are also suspended.
Macau has defined confinement areas, having currently delimited nine buildings in the city from which neighbors are not allowed to leave. Alongside these red zones, yellow zones were created in adjacent buildings, with less restrictive control measures.
Since the start of the pandemic, the territory has registered a total of 125 infections, zero deaths and 332 asymptomatic.
Like mainland China, the region follows a “zero cases” policy, in which asymptomatic people are not entered into official government accounts, even though they too are required to adhere to isolation measures.
Source: Observadora
