(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) From 0:00 on August 12th, Macao people entering the Mainland will be exempted from isolation for medical observation
China News Service, Macau, August 10 (Reporter Long Tuyou) Ouyang Yu, Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Affairs of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 10th that the Special Administrative Region Government has received a notice from the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council to return to his hometown starting at 0:00 on August 12 People who have entered the Mainland from Macau, have no history of residence in foreign countries or other overseas regions (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) within 14 days, have a certificate of negative nucleic acid test results within 7 days, and will no longer be quarantined for 14 days Observation measures.
Ouyang Yu pointed out that the new measures have a circuit breaker mechanism. If the risk of the Macau epidemic is adjusted to a medium-to-high level, the 14-day intensive medical observation of immigrants will be resumed until the level assessment risk of Macau returns to low risk. She urged residents to continue to cooperate with the government in epidemic prevention work and strive to maintain a low risk of the epidemic in Macau.
In addition, starting from 0:00 on August 12, the application for travel endorsements for Zhuhai citizens (including residence permit holders) to the Macao Special Administrative Region, including group tours and individual tours, will be resumed.
The Novel Coronavirus Response Coordination Center stated that a 9-month-old baby girl in Macau was suspected of swallowing the cotton swab of the test stick when she was undergoing a nucleic acid test on the same day. The authorities sent the baby girl to Earl's General Hospital for examination. After a preliminary examination, No foreign body or injury was seen in the oral cavity, and the condition was good. In response to the incident, the Department of Health stipulated that people under the age of 18 will use nasopharyngeal swabs for sampling.
As of August 10, Macau has had no local case reports for 134 consecutive days and no overseas imported case reports for 45 consecutive days. A total of 46 confirmed cases have been confirmed, and all confirmed patients have been cured and discharged from the hospital and completed the recovery period of isolation. So far, there has been no community transmission of the new crown pneumonia virus, and no medical staff has been infected. (Finish)