{"id":17629,"date":"2021-05-06T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:46:28","slug":"india-delta-corp-casino-in-sikkim-to-close-until-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-delta-corp-casino-in-sikkim-to-close-until-may-16","title":{"rendered":"India: Delta Corp casino in Sikkim to close until May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delta Corp has announced it will shut its casino in Sikkim until at least May 16 due to a rise in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-\u00a0<strong>Delta Corp\u00a0<\/strong>has announced it will\u00a0<strong>temporarily suspend operations\u00a0<\/strong>in the state of Sikkim, India, after authorities introduced a curfew from May 6 to May 16 <strong>due to a surge in Covid-19 cases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry of Health,\u00a0<strong>Sikkim registered 221 new Covid-19 cases\u00a0<\/strong>in the last 24 hours, giving a total of 8,919 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sikkim authorities announced that <strong>only essential services are allowed to remain open<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delta Corp said in a press release: &#8220;We are unable to estimate the quantum of<strong>\u00a0potential losses on account of this temporary closure\u00a0<\/strong>and the pandemic at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-goa-casinos-will-remain-closed-until-at-least-may-10\">The company<\/a>\u00a0has been affected by the temporary closure of its three offshore casinos in Goa. Authorities have announced that the casinos will remain\u00a0<strong>shut until at least May 10<\/strong>\u00a0along with gyms, colleges, schools and bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delta-corp-asks-for-waiver-on-licence-fees\">Delta Corp<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>recently\u00a0<strong>asked authorities for a waiver on its licence fees\u00a0<\/strong>after reporting a<strong>\u00a0profit of Rs1.28 crore (US$176,000)<\/strong>, down 97.7 per cent year-on-year, in the last quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Corp has announced it will shut its casino in Sikkim until at least May 16 due to a rise in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Delta Corp has announced the temporary suspension of its Sikkim casino operations until at least May 16, following a government-mandated curfew due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. This closure compounds previous suspensions of its Goa offshore casinos, impacting the company's GGR and NGR, as evidenced by a 97.7% year-on-year profit decline in Q4 2020 and a request for license fee waivers.","focusai_entities":"Delta Corp, Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"India, Sikkim, Goa","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q2?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact of these extended operational suspensions on Delta Corp's Q2 financial performance and overall liquidity?"},{"label":"License Fee Waivers?","query":"How are Indian regulatory bodies evaluating and responding to requests for B2C license fee waivers amidst prolonged operational disruptions across gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,23876,16334],"tags":[23890,23907],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-social-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-delta-corp","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","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=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17638,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions\/17638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}