The epidemic in Macau continued to spread, with 71 new confirmed cases yesterday (25th), and 38 more cases today (26th) from 0:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., bringing the cumulative number of new cases to 299.
The Macau government announced that it will start a two-day, third round of nationwide nucleic acid testing starting at 9:00 tomorrow morning (27th), and will end at 6:00 the next day. unified use.
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The Novel Coronavirus Infection Response and Coordination Center stated that 71 new confirmed cases were reported yesterday, of which 57 were found in the community and 14 were found under control, bringing the total number of cases to 261.
From 0:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. today, 38 new positive cases were reported, bringing the total number of positive cases to 299.
Before going to the inspection station for testing, you must take a quick self-test and declare
According to the Education and Youth Development Bureau, the number of inspection stations for this national inspection has increased to 61, including 41 general stations, 13 self-funded stations and 7 caring stations.
The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau emphasized that before going out to the inspection station, citizens must take a self-rapid antigen test and declare it. If the test result is negative, they can go to the inspection station for nucleic acid testing, and show the identification card when entering the inspection station. A health code with a negative rapid antigen test result or a photo with a negative test result will not be allowed to enter the station.
The Response and Coordination Center stated that it found that many citizens' health codes have changed into yellow and red codes due to incorrect declaration of addresses, and they need to apply for decoding. In the past 12 hours, there have been more than 1,800 related applications. Due to the current shortage of human resources, The decoding may take 72 hours to process, and citizens are urged to fill in the address information correctly when applying for the health code.
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Taking multiple rounds of national inspections and efficient circulation is the key to prevention
Ouyang Yu, Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Affairs, said that this morning, he held a video conference with the epidemic prediction team led by Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The key to prevention is inspection, efficient flow regulation, and risk population control.
The team also believes that due to the rapid increase in the scale of infection, there is an urgent need to further strengthen the capacity of circulation, increase inspection points, reduce the flow of people, and urgently clean up the virus transmission chain to eliminate social transmission as soon as possible; from the epidemic data, the virus is currently spreading in the community. , the first two rounds of national inspections, key areas and key population inspections, and national self-antigen testing have played a considerable role in helping the society to control the epidemic.
The closure will not be a one-size-fits-all approach to calling on citizens to minimize going out
When asked which areas should be blocked and which should not be blocked, Ouyang Yu emphasized that there will be no one size fits all. Initially it was located in the Central District, Afonso Street, and Goldstone, but now it is found that it has moved to the North District, and regional measures will be determined based on the data.
She stressed that citizens should cooperate with the government and minimize going out in addition to purchasing daily necessities.
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