(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Macau Confirms Participation in the "Global Vaccine Procurement Plan"
China News Agency, Macau, September 21 (Reporter Long Tuyou) The Macau Novel Coronavirus Infection Response Coordination Center announced on the 21st that the SAR government has signed an agreement with the World Health Organization and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, confirming participation in the "Global Vaccine Procurement Plan" ".
Liang Yihao, coordinator of the Department of Infectious Disease Prevention and Disease Surveillance of the Health Bureau, said that the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization will give priority to providing vaccines to high-risk areas, so the time for supply to Macau will be relatively late. For this reason, the SAR government is working with other vaccines. Contact the supplier to discuss the purchase of vaccines.
Based on two doses per resident, the total amount of vaccines purchased by the SAR government is about 1.4 million doses.
The Mainland will fully resume processing of visas for travel to Australia on September 23, followed by the "Eleventh" Golden Week. It is expected that a large number of tourists will enter Macau, which will bring severe challenges to Macau's epidemic prevention work.
Liu Fengchi, director of the Public Relations Office of the Tourism Bureau, said that the authorities are using various channels to promote Macau's epidemic prevention guidelines and information to mainland tourists, reminding them to pay attention to epidemic prevention when traveling in Australia.
At the same time, Macau’s tourism and hotel industries are required to strictly abide by the Health Bureau’s epidemic prevention guidelines and maintain a good epidemic prevention environment.
Li Dehui, director of the Public Relations Division of the Public Security Police, pointed out that Macau has not had any new cases of new coronary pneumonia infection for a long time, and it depends on the cooperation of health departments, frontline anti-epidemic personnel, and all Australian citizens.
With the gradual increase in tourists, the police urged citizens not to relax and continue to strictly abide by the epidemic prevention requirements, so as not to waste their previous efforts in epidemic prevention.
As of September 21, Macau has had no reports of local cases for 176 consecutive days and no reports of imported cases for 87 consecutive days.
A total of 46 confirmed cases have been confirmed, and all patients have recovered and been discharged. So far, there has been no community transmission of the new crown pneumonia virus, and no medical staff have been infected.
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