Macau Civil Servants To Stay Home Over Covid Cases

The Macau government has told its civil servants to stay at home until Friday in light of four newly confirmed Covid-19 cases.

The SAR recorded three cases on Monday and one on Tuesday. All of the cases were linked.

They involved two renovation workers who were from the mainland and two Vietnamese people who worked in the same unit as the renovation workers.

The Macau government said civil servants should not go to to work for three days to help prevent the spread of the virus.

A Macau lawmaker, Lei Cheng-I, told an RTHK programme that the atmosphere in the community was quite tense.

“Citizens are quite nervous. Although the cases are linked, we don’t know the source of the infections. There could be a community outbreak as these people had different activities in Macau during their incubation period,” she said.

The authorities on Monday halted a plan to lift the 14-day quarantine requirement for travellers entering Zhuhai from Macau.

Hundreds of students who live in Zhuhai and study in Macau have been stuck in the SAR as they can't go home without quarantining.

Lei said the Macau government had provided them with temporary accommodation.

Macau launched another mass Covid testing exercise on Monday night. As of 9am on Tueday morning, about 140,000 people - out of the entire population of some 650,000 - had been tested.