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Second imported Omicron case detected in Macau

Dec 30, 2021 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck  


Second imported Omicron case detected in Macau

Macau has confirmed its second imported Covid-19 infection case involving the Omicron variant, the city’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said on Wednesday. The infected person is a 62-year-old male, a Macau ID holder who returned to the city on December 27 from the United States, via a transit stop in Singapore.

In a Thursday update, Macau’s Covid-19 task force said that the patient had – after being initially asymptomatic – started to show symptoms. He was, therefore, classified as Macau’s 79th confirmed Covid-19 infection case. The city confirmed its first imported case of Omicron earlier this week, a 23-year-old male Macau ID holder who returned to the city on December 25, from the U.S. via Singapore.

Under Macau’s “closed loop” system for managing Covid-19, all air travellers from overseas are immediately placed in quarantine whether or not they test ‘positive’ on arrival.

Currently, mainland China remains the only place that has a largely quarantine-free travel arrangement with Macau. The neighbouring city of Hong Kong – in pre-pandemic times an important source of gamblers for Macau’s casinos – is yet to ease travel ties with Macau.

Hong Kong has recently seen imported Covid-19 infection cases involving the Omicron variant. A total of 70 Omicron cases had been recorded as of Wednesday, said that city’s Centre for Health Protection in a press statement.

(Updated Dec 30, at 5:59pm)


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