Mass COVID testing in Macau after case in neighbouring Chinese city Zhuhai

8/8/2022 12:22

        Authorities in Macau instructed residents to conduct at least two days of COVID-19 tests after a person who travelled from the Chinese special administrative
        region to neighbouring city Zhuhai was found to have been infected with the virus.
        
        The move comes days after Macau started to unwind stringent anti-COVID rules, including the resumption of travel to Zhuhai without quarantine from Aug. 3.
        
        The Macau government said in a statement on Sunday that all of the city's 700,000 residents should take rapid antigen tests on Sunday and Monday and upload the results to a government website.
        
        Thousands of residents living near Macau's border to Zhuhai and the Taipa district, which sits alongside the city's Las Vegas-style Cotai strip, must do official nucleic acid tests, the government said.
        
        Authorities have also sealed up the infected person's apartment building and the supermarket where the person worked.