Authorities met with casino, lottery and sports betting operators and warned them to have Covid-19 contingency plans after local cases were detected at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong> has held a meeting with Macau\u2019s casino, lottery and sports wagering concessionaires. It reminded them to have emergency plans<\/strong> in place in case of an increase in Covid-19 cases in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities asked the gaming operators to have “reaction groups” set up ready to manage any Covid-19 crisis. The DICJ also said casino operators must have evacuation plans for guests in case of a new outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seven new Covid-19 cases have been detected <\/strong>in recent days. That’s led the DICJ to cancel the first session of its public consultation on changes to gaming laws.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau has entered into \u201cimmediate pandemic prevention\u201d mode<\/strong>. Nearly 2,000 hotel rooms at the Londoner Macao complex<\/strong>, operated by Sands China Ltd, have been allocated to use as part of the city\u2019s quarantine programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Analysts at JP Morgan Securities<\/strong> believe expectations for the national holiday could be deeply affected by new countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They said: \u201cWhile there\u2019s still a possibility that travel restrictions could be lifted before\/during Golden Week, we think it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that it will be an ungolden holiday<\/strong>, as many players are likely to cancel the trips to avoid risks of being quarantined upon their return to mainland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Current countermeasures are similar to those the government imposed in August<\/a> after the city reported local Covid-19 cases. At the time, Macau carried out mass testing for Covid-19<\/a>, in which 716,251 people were tested<\/strong>, all of them returning negative results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities have suspended the <\/strong>\u201cStay, Dine and See Macao\u201d initiative<\/a> that let Macau residents book government-subsidised staycations at hotels and guest houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A week ago, Andy Wu, president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau, <\/strong>had predicted the city could receive 40,000 daily visitors<\/a> during the holiday period. Macao Government Tourism Office director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes<\/a> had predicted 35,000 visitors a day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities met with casino, lottery and sports betting operators and warned them to have Covid-19 contingency plans after local cases were detected at the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18877,"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's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has mandated casino, lottery, and sports betting concessionaires to implement robust COVID-19 contingency and evacuation plans following new local cases. This regulatory directive, coupled with \"immediate pandemic prevention\" measures and the allocation of hotel rooms for quarantine, is severely impacting October Golden Week tourism forecasts and GGR expectations for the region.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Sands China Ltd, JP Morgan Securities, Andy Wu, Travel Industry Council of Macau, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Forecasts","query":"What are the revised GGR forecasts for Macau's gaming concessionaires for Q4 and beyond, considering the extended 'immediate pandemic prevention' measures and their impact on Golden Week visitation?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution","query":"How might the DICJ's heightened focus on operational contingency planning and public health protocols influence the ongoing public consultation on gaming law changes and future B2B\/B2C licensing requirements?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-23097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097","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=23097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23125,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions\/23125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Macau October Golden Week at risk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n