{"id":23618,"date":"2021-10-18T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23618"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:43:44","slug":"zhuhai-to-ease-travel-restrictions-with-macau-from-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/zhuhai-to-ease-travel-restrictions-with-macau-from-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"Zhuhai to ease travel restrictions with Macau from tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From October 19, travellers from Macau who want to enter Zhuhai will only have to show a negative Covid-19 test and will no longer be required to quarantine on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.-\u00a0Authorities in Zhuhai have eased restrictions\u00a0<\/strong>for people who have travelled from Macau and will no longer require a 14-day quarantine. Ho Iat Seng<\/a>, Macau\u2019s chief executive, also said people who plan to travel outside Macau would no longer need to present a negative Covid-19 test<\/strong>\u00a0issued within 24 hours of departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the first week of October, authorities had announced that\u00a0the mandatory 14-day quarantine<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0visitors from Macau<\/a>\u00a0was going to be kept in place due to new Covid-19 cases in Macau in the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People in Macau that have had “close contact” with Covid-19 positive cases are banned from entering Zhuhai until they have hung tight for seven days in the wake of finishing a quarantine cycle inside Macau.\u00a0People living in Macau’s alleged “red” and “yellow” zones are also prohibited from entering Zhuhai until seven days have passed after the lifting of the alert from their zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local health authorities, no new Covid-19 cases have been reported in Macau<\/strong>\u00a0since October 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMF forecasts GDP growth of 20.4% for 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The International Monetary Fund<\/a> has adjusted downwards its forecast for Macau. It now predicts the city\u2019s GDP growth for 2021 will be 20.4 per cent<\/strong>. The fund also predicted a consumer price deflation rate of -0.3 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, the IMF had predicted that Macau\u2019s economy would rebound by 61 per cent this year<\/strong>. However, the city\u2019s economy is heavily dependent on gaming revenue, which has been slow to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic due to ongoing restrictions on travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From October 19, travellers from Macau who want to enter Zhuhai will only have to show a negative Covid-19 test and will no longer be required to quarantine on arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Zhuhai has eased travel restrictions for Macau residents, eliminating the mandatory 14-day quarantine and requiring only a negative COVID-19 test. Concurrently, Macau's Chief Executive announced relaxed outbound testing requirements. This development follows a significant downgrade by the IMF of Macau's 2021 GDP growth forecast to 20.4% from an earlier 61%, attributing the revision to the slow recovery of gaming revenue due to persistent travel limitations.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, International Monetary Fund","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Outlook","query":"Given the easing of Zhuhai-Macau travel restrictions, what is the revised GGR recovery trajectory for Macau's gaming concessionaires for Q4 2021 and H1 2022, factoring in the IMF's downgraded GDP forecast?"},{"label":"Concessionaire Strategy","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their capital allocation, marketing spend, and operational staffing models in response to these incremental improvements in cross-border mobility and the updated economic outlook?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-23618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618","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=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23629,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions\/23629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}