{"id":12539,"date":"2020-12-08T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:21:25","slug":"macau-strengthens-quarantine-for-town-in-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-strengthens-quarantine-for-town-in-chengdu","title":{"rendered":"Macau strengthens quarantine for town in Chengdu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A town in Chengdu is now on \u201chigh alert\u201d and Chinese authorities have ordered mass testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macau SAR Government has extended the 14-day quarantine requirement for visitors arriving from Pitong Town in Chengdu or that have been in the area in the past 14 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese authorities have ordered mass testing and lockdowns in Chengdu after six new cases of Covid-19 were reported this week. Over 21,000 people have undergone Covid-19 testing since Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) system returned for all mainland China on September 23, Macau has been imposing <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-lifts-border-restrictions-for-2-chinese-prefectures\" target=\"_blank\">focused quarantines<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for visitors from areas considered high risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until Tuesday, this was the case of specific areas in Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai and Chengdu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A town in Chengdu is now on \u201chigh alert\u201d and Chinese authorities have ordered mass testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau SAR Government has extended its 14-day quarantine mandate for visitors originating from Pitong Town, Chengdu, and other designated high-risk areas in mainland China, following new COVID-19 case reports. This measure, in effect since the resumption of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), directly impacts inbound tourism volumes, thereby influencing Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) projections for Macau's gaming concessionaires.","focusai_entities":"Macau SAR Government, Chinese authorities","focusai_location":"Macau, Chengdu, Pitong Town, China, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the quantitative impact of these extended quarantine measures on Macau's projected Q4 GGR, and how might this influence the capital expenditure and dividend policies of concessionaires?"},{"label":"IVS Recovery Trajectory","query":"How do these localized travel restrictions affect the overall recovery trajectory of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) and the critical mainland China visitor segment for Macau's gaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,161,16338],"tags":[257,12598],"class_list":["post-12539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau","tag-quarantine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}