{"id":20100,"date":"2021-07-09T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20100"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:45:45","slug":"sands-china-vaccinates-10070-team-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sands-china-vaccinates-10070-team-members","title":{"rendered":"Sands China vaccinates 10,070 team members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sands China has vaccinated 10,070 team members as part of its plan to encourage people to get the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Sands China <\/strong>has announced that 10,070 team members have been vaccinated <\/strong>or have registered to get vaccinated to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilfred Wong, Sands China president, stated: “We each have a responsibility to support efforts to achieve herd immunity via community-wide vaccination, and I\u2019m very proud that Sands China is doing its part to help make that happen<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our thanks go to the Macao SAR government for their continued leadership during the pandemic \u2013 where Macao has recorded no new local COVID-19 cases for more than 460 days \u2013 and to the Health Bureau for their collaboration again on our seminars and vaccination sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other casino operators in Macau, Sands China started a campaign to increase the vaccination rate<\/a>\u00a0in Macau. Some 395,000 doses have been given and 140,000 people have been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June,\u00a0Melco Resorts & Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0announced it had vaccinated 2,400 staff members and family as part of its immunity incentive programme. The company gave\u00a0each employee a bonus of MOP1,000 (US$125)\u00a0<\/strong>after getting vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akiko Takahashi, Melco\u2019s executive vice president and chief of staff said: \u201cWe are thrilled to see colleagues\u2019 positive response to the\u00a0Get the Jab\u00a0campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a rise in the vaccination rate in Macau after the outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring\u00a0province of Guangdong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sands China has vaccinated 10,070 team members as part of its plan to encourage people to get the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Sands China reports 10,070 team members vaccinated or registered, aligning with broader Macau casino operator efforts to boost community-wide vaccination rates. This initiative, also seen with Melco Resorts & Entertainment offering incentives, aims to support public health and operational stability amidst regional COVID-19 developments.","focusai_entities":"Sands China, Wilfred Wong, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, Akiko Takahashi, Macao SAR government, Health Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR Recovery","query":"What is the projected impact of these accelerated vaccination rates on Macau's GGR recovery trajectory and the timeline for easing cross-border travel restrictions?"},{"label":"Employee Retention Strategies","query":"How do these vaccination incentive programs integrate into broader employee retention strategies and what are the long-term implications for labor costs within Macau's integrated resorts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906,21680],"class_list":["post-20100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos","tag-sands-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20100","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=20100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20125,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20100\/revisions\/20125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}