{"id":23231,"date":"2021-10-04T07:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23231"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:06:35","slug":"macau-faces-new-covid-19-cases-in-october-golden-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-faces-new-covid-19-cases-in-october-golden-week","title":{"rendered":"Macau faces new Covid-19 cases in October Golden Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities have reported ten new Covid-19 cases as October&#8217;s Golden Week begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Authorities have revealed<strong> <\/strong>that <strong>only 3,122 visitors <\/strong>arrived in Macau during <strong>the first two days of the national Golden Week<\/strong> <strong>holiday<\/strong> \u2013 down 92 per cent compared with last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure comes as the government analyses<strong>\u00a0whether to implement new Covid-19 countermeasures<\/strong>, following the appearance of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-october-golden-week-at-risk-amid-local-covid-19-cases\">new local cases of Covid-19<\/a> since September 25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The local outbreak looks set to have a deep impact on the highly anticipated holiday period, with GGRAsia reporting that as of Thursday\u00a0<strong>just five out of 25 resorts in Macau had sold out<\/strong>\u00a0for around four evenings. Previous to the new outbreak of Covid-19 cases, Macau authorities were expecting to welcome\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/expectations-rise-for-october-golden-week-in-macau\">40.000 daily visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Analysts at JP Morgan Securities<\/strong>&nbsp;said: \u201cWe think it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that it will be an ungolden holiday as many players are likely to cancel the trips to avoid risks of being quarantined upon their return to the mainland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zhuhai keeps 14-day quarantine for inbound travellers from Macau<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/zhuhai-keeps-14-day-quarantine-for-inbound-travellers-from-macau\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Authorities in the city of Zhuhai<\/a>&nbsp;have announced that&nbsp;<strong>the mandatory 14-day quarantine<\/strong>&nbsp;for visitors from Macau will be kept in place due to new Covid-19 cases in Macau in the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Zhuhai is one of the main gateways to Macau for mainland China visitors,&nbsp;<strong>Ho Iat Seng, Macau\u2019s Chief Executive&nbsp;<\/strong>has said that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/end-to-zhuhai-quarantine-may-not-save-macau-golden-week\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an end to the inbound quarantine in Zhuhai<\/a>&nbsp;would not be a \u201cmajor assistance\u201d for Macau\u2019s tourism sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have reported ten new Covid-19 cases as October&#8217;s Golden Week begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 experienced a 92% decline in visitor arrivals during the Golden Week holiday due to new local COVID-19 cases and ongoing quarantine requirements from Zhuhai. This outbreak significantly impacted hotel occupancy and GGR forecasts, with analysts predicting a substantial downturn for the gaming sector.","focusai_entities":"GGRAsia, JP Morgan Securities, Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Macau's integrated resorts for Q4, considering the Golden Week performance and ongoing travel restrictions?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Shift?","query":"How are Macau's gaming operators adjusting their capital expenditure and operational strategies in response to sustained low visitation and GGR volatility?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-23231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231","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=23231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23238,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}