{"id":17321,"date":"2021-04-28T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17321"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:00:22","slug":"india-goa-casinos-to-close-until-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-goa-casinos-to-close-until-may-3","title":{"rendered":"India: Goa casinos to close until May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health professionals had asked the government to temporarily close Goa&#8217;s casinos due to an alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Authorities have decided to close <strong>Goa&#8217;s casinos from April 29 until May 3<\/strong> after medical professionals called for the closure since the offshore casinos were not affected by the previous curfew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health reported that&nbsp;<strong>Goa currently has 15,260 active Covid-19 cases&nbsp;<\/strong>while India as a whole faces an alarming growth in the number of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the new countermeasures,<strong>&nbsp;Goa&#8217;s casinos, hotels and pubs will remain closed&nbsp;<\/strong>while restaurants will only be allowed to operate their kitchens for home deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public transport will not run and <strong>tourists will not be allowed to step out of their hotel rooms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delta-corp-asks-for-waiver-on-licence-fees\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Delta Corp<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>has recently asked authorities for a<strong>&nbsp;waiver on its licence fees&nbsp;<\/strong>as revenues were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health professionals had asked the government to temporarily close Goa&#8217;s casinos due to an alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Goa's casinos, including offshore operations, are mandated to close from April 29 to May 3 following a surge in Covid-19 cases and a request from health professionals. This measure, part of broader countermeasures, impacts hospitality sectors, with Delta Corp already seeking a license fee waiver due to revenue disruption.","focusai_entities":"Delta Corp, Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"Goa, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"License Fee Waivers?","query":"What is the likelihood of the Goa government granting license fee waivers to affected operators, and what precedent would this set for future operational disruptions?"},{"label":"Revenue Impact Analysis?","query":"How will this temporary closure impact the Q2 revenue projections and EBITDA for key operators like Delta Corp, considering the duration and broader restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16334],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","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=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17353,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions\/17353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}