(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Macao Special Administrative Region Government invites experts from the National Health Commission to study Hong Kong and Macao convenient customs clearance arrangements
China News Agency, Macau, July 20 (Reporter Long Tuyou) Ouyang Yu, Director of the Department of Social Culture of the Macau Special Administrative Region Government, said on the 20th that Macau has been in close communication with the Mainland and Hong Kong on the issue of convenient customs clearance and is inviting experts from the National Health Commission Come to Macau to review the anti-epidemic situation, and hope that the expert team can give professional advice to promote the convenient customs clearance measures between Macau and the Mainland and Hong Kong.
In an interview with the media after attending a public event that day, Ouyang Yu said that Macau's current vaccination rate is close to 40%, which is still far from the ideal vaccination rate.
Recently, the number of people making appointments for the new crown vaccine has shown a downward trend. The highest peak earlier recorded more than 10,000 appointments per day, but in recent days there are only about 2,000 appointments per day.
She urged the public to actively get vaccinated and work together to build an immune barrier.
Ouyang Yu revealed that the three places have been in close communication regarding the customs clearance between Macao and the Mainland and Hong Kong. The Macao SAR government is inviting a team of experts from the National Health Commission to Macao to review the situation of Macao’s anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention. It is hoped that the expert team can provide professionalism. Opinions, analysis of Hong Kong and Macau arrangements to facilitate customs clearance, and further customs clearance facilitation measures between the Mainland and Macau.
As of July 20, there has been no community transmission of the new crown pneumonia virus in Macau. There have been no reports of local cases (including asymptomatic infections) for 478 consecutive days, and no new imported cases have been reported for 16 consecutive days.
(Finish)