{"id":21521,"date":"2021-08-13T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=21521"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:40:09","slug":"casino-canberra-announces-seven-day-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casino-canberra-announces-seven-day-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"Casino Canberra announces seven-day lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aquis Entertainment has announced the temporary closure of Casino Canberra due to the Australian Capital Territory&#8217;s new Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has announced new measures leading to the<strong>\u00a0temporary closure of Casino Canberra<\/strong>, a venue operated by Aquis Entertainment Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A seven-day closure was announced by the casino operator on Thursday after<strong>\u00a0ACT reported four new Covid-19 cases <\/strong>after more than a year without local cases. Authorities said <strong>the lockdown will be lifted only if there is no increase in cases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casino-canberra-reopens-after-lockdown\">the casino<\/a>\u00a0was shut for almost four months due to lockdown measures. the company cut around\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/aquis-entertainment-casino-canberra\">90% of its total workforce<\/a>\u00a0last March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-star-queensland-reopens-as-reef-casino-closes\">Reef Casino Trust\u2018s property<\/a>\u00a0in Cairns has closed until next Wednesday due to countermeasures there and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/star-sydney-casino-to-remain-closed-until-august-28\">Star Sydney<\/a> <strong>will remain closed until August 28<\/strong>\u00a0after the New South Wales government announced an extension of Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Melbourne,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-melbourne-to-be-closed-until-august-12\">Crown Resorts<\/a>\u00a0initially ceased operations until August 12 under a 7-day lockdown imposed by the Victorian government, but now says it <strong>will be closed until further notice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquis Entertainment has announced the temporary closure of Casino Canberra due to the Australian Capital Territory&#8217;s new Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Aquis Entertainment's Casino Canberra, alongside other major Australian gaming venues including Reef Casino Trust, Star Sydney, and Crown Resorts, has announced temporary closures due to new COVID-19 countermeasures across various states. These operational halts, some extending indefinitely, reflect the significant impact of public health mandates on the land-based gaming sector's GGR and workforce management.","focusai_entities":"Aquis Entertainment, Casino Canberra, Reef Casino Trust, Star Sydney, Crown Resorts","focusai_location":"Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Cairns, New South Wales, Sydney, Melbourne, Victoria","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Impact?","query":"What is the projected daily GGR loss for each affected operator, and how will these closures impact their Q3\/Q4 financial guidance and capital market performance?"},{"label":"Operational Resilience?","query":"What contingency plans are operators implementing to manage workforce retention, fixed costs, and supply chain continuity during extended closure periods, and what is the operational burn rate?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[23786,23907],"class_list":["post-21521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-casino-canberra","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521","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=21521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21571,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions\/21571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}