Macau will continue to require full vaccination against Covid-19 for all passengers who want to travel from abroad to the region, which announced the reduction of the quarantine from 10 to seven days.
“If they don’t get vaccinated, they don’t even qualify to board the flight back to Macau,” even if they are local residents, New Type’s Leong Iek Hou told a news conference on Tuesday. Coronavirus Contingency Coordination Center.
The Chinese special administrative region will reduce the quarantine period for “people entering Macau from foreign countries, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the Taiwan Region” starting Saturday.
In addition to the seven days of medical observation in a hotel designated by the authorities, another three days of self-management still need to be completed, the center said in a statement.
The measure applies to anyone who has “completed all vaccination procedures against the new type of coronavirus” and submitted negative test results upon arrival in Macau, as well as tests during the quarantine period.
Macau, which had recorded around 80 cases since January 2020, suffered in June the worst outbreak faced since the start of the pandemic, which infected more than 1,800 people, most of them asymptomatic, and caused six deaths, all elderly people with illnesses. Chronicles. diseases. .
Of Macau’s Covid-19 cases, 19% were unvaccinated and less than half had all three doses, health officials said on June 30, calling the unvaccinated rate “very high.”
The attending physician of the Hospital Conde de São Januário, Lei Wai Seng, returned this day call on the population to be vaccinated, especially the elderly.
In May, authorities offered older adults, the age group with the lowest vaccination rate, “vouchers” up to a maximum of 250 patacas (30 euros) as an incentive for vaccination.
The Government has stressed that a high vaccination rate could make border control measures more flexible, which has had a negative impact on tourism, practically the only industry in the territory.
Borders with mainland China have been virtually closed since the outbreak began on June 18. Something that led the casinos to register in July the worst result, in terms of income, since at least 2003.
Since February 21, Macau requires a vaccination certificate for people over 12 years of age from Hong Kong and Taiwan, a measure that was already applied to passengers on international flights.
Source: Observadora
