Macau's epidemic outbreak reveals 31 confirmed cases in a single day, banks close ATMs for normal operation on Monday and Tuesday

The new coronavirus outbreak broke out in Macau after an eight-month interval. The local government announced today (19th) afternoon that 21 confirmed cases have been temporarily recorded.

The Macau Response and Coordination Center said in the evening that as of 10 p.m., the number of nucleic acid positive cases had increased to 31, including 21 women and 10 men, ranging in age from 8 months to 89 years old.

The Macau authorities announced that nationwide testing will be implemented from noon today to Tuesday, and all Macau residents and stayers will be required to participate. Public sectors will be closed during the period, except for emergency and essential services; all banking and insurance institutions will also be available for two consecutive days starting tomorrow. (20th and 21st) External services will be suspended, while online banking, mobile banking and ATMs will continue to operate normally.

Director of the Macau Health Bureau, Luo Yilong (Screenshot of the Facebook live broadcast of the Information Bureau of the Macau Special Administrative Region Government)

100,000 people have been sampled so far

The Macau government held a press conference on the epidemic this afternoon. Director of the Health Bureau, Luo Yilong, said that as of 4:15 p.m., 21 new cases had been reported, involving 16 women and 5 men, ranging in age from 8 months to 89 years old, and 13 of them were asymptomatic.

Response and coordination announced in the evening that as of 10 p.m., the number of cases had increased to 31, including 21 women and 10 men; 8 of them were symptomatic confirmed cases, and 23 were asymptomatic.

Through epidemiological investigations, the authorities followed up a total of 602 people, including 146 close contacts, 375 non-core close contacts (that is, people with a common trajectory), 36 secondary close contacts, 10 general contacts, and 4 accompanying persons. people.

On the first day, 210,000 people were sampled and about 67,000 people tested negative

The authorities require all people in Australia to undergo a national nucleic acid test. So far, 100,000 people have been sampled, and more than 5,000 people have received results, all of which are negative.

The authorities called on all places to suspend business except supermarkets and markets, restaurants only provide takeaways, all schools will be closed from today, parks and stadiums will be closed, and residents will not go out unless necessary.

The Response Coordination Center said that as of 10 p.m., 211,779 people had been sampled, of which 66,797 had test results, all of which were negative.

According to the latest arrangement, all branches of banks and insurance institutions in Macau will suspend external services for two consecutive days from tomorrow (20th) in accordance with the instructions of the Macau Response Coordination Center, and the due dates of deposits, loans and settlements involving business will be postponed to the next working day.

As for self-service channels such as online banking, mobile banking and automatic teller machines (ATM), normal services will be maintained.

Another authority said that Macau banks will ensure that ATMs are equipped with enough cash for people to withdraw.

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Push 10 billion yuan to relieve difficulties

The Macau government stated that in response to the sudden situation of the epidemic in Macau, after an evaluation, it has decided to further introduce economic assistance measures to tide over the difficult times of fighting the epidemic together with all walks of life.

The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Li Wei Nong, said that the relevant measures are estimated to be about 10 billion patacas, and work will be started immediately to provide support; the HKMA has notified relevant financial and commercial institutions to postpone the repayment measures until December 31 next year. day.

Measures include:

(1) Refund of house tax for industrial and commercial activity sites;

(2) Exemption from all tourism taxes;

(3) Refund the vehicle license tax for business vehicles;

(4) Exemption or refund of the payment of administrative licenses and related fees;

(5) Fuel subsidies for the taxi industry;

(6) Launching a new round of "Employees, Freelancers and Business Operators Assistance Funding Scheme";

(7) Launching the Special Interest Subsidy Program for Corporate Bank Loans.

From tomorrow, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City requires a negative nucleic acid certificate to enter public places

At the same time, the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention and control headquarters in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City announced in the evening that from 0:00 a.m. tomorrow (20th), to enter various public places, communities, factories, enterprises, etc., you must hold nucleic acid within 48 hours. Negative test certificate or nucleic acid sampling certificate.

In addition, Zhuhai High-tech Zone and Zhongshan Tanzhou Town announced that in response to infection cases in Macau, nucleic acid screening of all employees was carried out.

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