COVID-19 pandemic in Macau
| COVID-19 pandemic in Macau | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Macau |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Arrival date | January 22, 2020; 5 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 1 day ago |
| Confirmed cases | 3,334[1] (including 1,239 asymptomatic cases) |
| Active cases | 16,664[2] |
| Suspected cases‡ | 5,633 |
| Recovered | 3,017[1] (including 326 asymptomatic cases) |
Deaths | 123[1] |
| Vaccinations | Total doses administered: 1,443,289 Total people vaccinated: 614,677 (including 586,843 with multiple doses) [1] |
| Government website | |
| Macao Government Special webpage against Epidemics | |
| ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. | |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Macau was a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case of the disease in the special administrative region of China was confirmed on 22 January 2020. The city saw nine more cases by 4 February, but no more cases until 15 March, when imported cases began to appear.[3] Stringent government measures[4] have included the 15-day closure of all 81 casinos in the territory in February 2020; in addition, effective 25 March, the territory disallowed connecting flights at its airport as well as entry by all non-residents (with the exception of residents of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), and from 6 April, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge was closed to public transport and most other traffic.
The territory had not suffered a major outbreak of COVID-19 until June 2022, when a cluster of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases prompted the government to implement restrictions, including the closure of non-essential businesses and repeated rounds of mandatory mass testing of its entire population,[5] in line with mainland China's Zero-COVID policy (Portuguese: Meta Dinâmica de Infecção Zero).[6][7]
At a press conference on 5 January 2023, the Macau Health Bureau director Alvis Lo Iek Long stated that COVID-19 had become an endemic disease in Macau, and announced the cancellation of almost all entry curbs and measures. The statement followed a transition period that began on 8 December 2022 with the gradual easing of transmission curbs.[8][9]
- ^ a b c d "Macao Government Special webpage against Epidemics". Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Macau. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- ^ Active cases = confirmed cases - recoveries - deaths.
- ^ Keegan, Matthew (24 March 2020). "Lessons From Macau, the Densely Populated Region Beating Back COVID-19". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ Lou, Loretta (26 March 2021). "Casino capitalism in the era of COVID-19: examining Macau's pandemic response". Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 17 (2): 69–79. doi:10.1108/STICS-09-2020-0025. S2CID 233650925. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "Macau begins 11th round of mass testing in worst COVID outbreak". Reuters. 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Macau shuts most businesses amid COVID outbreak, casinos stay open". Reuters. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "Palavras-chave sobre a pandemia da COVID-19 新冠疫情關鍵詞（一）抗疫工具及政策篇". 澳門理工大學 中葡英機器翻譯聯合實驗室.
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