{"id":16066,"date":"2021-03-19T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16066"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:58:47","slug":"macau-reduces-quarantine-for-hong-kong-arrivals-to-14-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-reduces-quarantine-for-hong-kong-arrivals-to-14-days","title":{"rendered":"Macau reduces quarantine for Hong Kong arrivals to 14 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau now requires a 14-day quarantine instead of 21 days for arrivals from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macau government continues to<strong> ease Covid-19 restrictions<\/strong>. <strong>Health authorities<\/strong> have announced that arrivals from<strong> Hong Kong <\/strong>will now have to undergo a quarantine of 14 days instead of 21 days plus seven days of health self-management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those <strong>under self-management are not allowed to enter certain public areas, including casinos<\/strong>, and must take a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 at least one day before the end of the self-management period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, authorities have recently announced that a negative Covid-19 test result is no longer needed to enter Macau\u2019s casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to analysts, the reinstatement of<strong> normal travel flows with Hong Kong would be a crucial step <\/strong>for a recovery of local gaming revenue as Hong Kong provides 10 to 15 per cent of Macau\u2019s annual casino gross gaming revenue (GGR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Macau\u2019s secretary for economy and finance<\/strong> has recently announced the government will launch <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-6-in-second-week-of-march\" target=\"_blank\">new stimulus measures for residents and programmes for employees<\/a><\/em>, including those in the gaming industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau now requires a 14-day quarantine instead of 21 days for arrivals from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau has reduced its mandatory quarantine period for arrivals from Hong Kong to 14 days and eliminated the negative COVID-19 test requirement for casino entry. Analysts project this easing of restrictions is critical for the recovery of Macau's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR), given Hong Kong's significant contribution. The government also plans new stimulus measures, including for the gaming industry workforce.","focusai_entities":"Macau government, Macau\u2019s secretary for economy and finance","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected incremental Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) contribution from the Hong Kong market following the reduction of quarantine protocols and removal of pre-entry testing for casino access?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness","query":"How are Macau's integrated resorts adjusting their operational capacity and marketing spend to capitalize on the anticipated increase in visitation from Hong Kong?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-16066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16080,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16066\/revisions\/16080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}