Xinhua News Agency, Macau, September 29 (Reporters Guo Xin and Wang Chenxi) Under the premise that the epidemic situation in the Mainland and Macau continues to improve, the exit and entry administration departments of the public security organs across the country have resumed handling mainland residents’ travel to Macau on the 23rd of this month Endorsement.
As the National Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and the "Eleventh" Golden Week are approaching, Macau is preparing to welcome the arrival of the first batch of mainland tourists after the resumption of tourist visas.
On the 29th, the Macao SAR government held a press conference at the border gate to introduce the preparations for the "11th" Golden Week.
Li Dehui, director of the Public Relations Division of the Public Security Police Bureau of the Special Administrative Region Government, said that National Day coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival and the security police are fully prepared to deal with the possible increase in crowds.
During holidays, police officers will not take vacations. The immigration department will appropriately deploy internal staff to the front line to assist in document inspection. At the same time, additional document inspection counters will be opened in response to the needs of various ports.
Liang Yihao, coordinator of the Department of Infectious Disease Prevention and Disease Surveillance of the Health Bureau of the Special Administrative Region Government, said that during the Golden Week, manpower will be increased at all entry and exit ports, mainly to assist passengers in checking health codes and nucleic acid test reports.
Liang Yihao urged all inbound passengers to fill in the Macau Health Code and present the nucleic acid test report in advance, which can be presented through the "Aokang Code" or "Yuekang Code", or the original paper report with the stamp of the testing agency.
After the "Eleventh" Golden Week, the health department will review all epidemic prevention measures in Macau.
In response to the opportunity of the Mainland to resume the application of visas for residents to travel to Australia, the Macau Special Administrative Region Government specially held a series of "Beijing Macau Week" promotional activities in the capital Beijing from the 26th to the 29th.
During this period, a large-scale road exhibition was set up on Wangfujing Street to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the successful application of the historical city of Macau to introduce the rich tourism elements of Macau to the mainland people.
Regarding Macau, the annual Macau Light and Shadow Festival also opens at the end of September. This year’s Light and Shadow Festival has set up four distinctive "Light-seeking Journeys" tourist routes, which will span the entire "Eleventh" Golden Week. Give mainland tourists a different feeling.
In addition, in order to welcome the festive season, the main squares, parks and scenic spots in Macau, such as Senado Square, Song Yusheng Square, and St. Paul's Arch, are also decorated with festive lighting, and the festive atmosphere is very strong.
According to the reporter's understanding, in the initial stage of resuming the application of visas for mainland residents to travel to Australia, a certain processing period is required. Mainland residents need to complete nucleic acid tests in advance before going to Macau.
In this regard, Li Dehui said frankly that this year's situation is quite special, and it is impossible to predict the flow of tourists to Australia during the Golden Week.
He said that the security police will maintain close communication with Zhuhai, adjust the number of customs clearance gates in due course, and have the opportunity to implement crowd control in response to the flow of people around the port.
The Macau Novel Coronavirus Infection Response Coordination Center stated that in response to more mainland tourists coming to Macau, it calls on all public institutions and indoor public facilities in Macau to strictly abide by the epidemic prevention guidelines during the Golden Week and take various epidemic prevention measures, including those who require entering places. Take temperature measurements, wear masks and show health codes to ensure that there are enough tissue papers and alcohol handrubs in public reception areas to consolidate Macau’s hard-earned epidemic prevention results.
In response to the increase in passenger traffic during the Golden Week during the "11th" Golden Week, Macau International Airport will uniformly check health codes for people entering the terminal at certain entrances and exits from the 29th.
It is understood that the hotel booking rate in Macau during the Golden Week during the "11th" Golden Week is currently about 30-40%.
As of September 29, Macau has had no new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia for 95 consecutive days, and a total of 46 confirmed cases have recovered and been discharged, and no community infection has occurred.
Taking into account that the National Day holiday is approaching, Macau citizens have an increased demand for new crown virus nucleic acid testing when traveling, and Macau's local new crown virus nucleic acid testing capacity will also increase to 19,000 per day.