{"id":23721,"date":"2021-10-20T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23721"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:36:30","slug":"macau-outbound-travellers-must-present-negative-covid-19-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-outbound-travellers-must-present-negative-covid-19-test","title":{"rendered":"Macau: outbound travellers must present negative Covid-19 test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in Macau have said that people who intend to leave Macau must show a negative Covid-19 test issued 48 hours previous to the departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The government of Macau has been easing Covid-19 countermeasures but it&#8217;s been announced that those who intend to leave the city by plane or ship\u00a0<strong>must present a negative Covid-19 test 48 hours prior to departure<\/strong>. The measure applies from today and until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who don&#8217;t produce a test result won&#8217;t be permitted to board, and those who breach the rule will be subject to mandatory quarantine and face criminal charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-entertainment-venues-allowed-to-reopen\">authorities<\/a>\u00a0have announced that\u00a0<strong>entertainment venues have been allowed to reopen <\/strong>as no new Covid-19 cases were detected following mass testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zhuhai to ease travel restrictions with Macau<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/zhuhai-to-ease-travel-restrictions-with-macau-from-tomorrow\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Authorities in Zhuhai have eased restrictions<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>for people who have travelled from Macau and will no longer require a 14-day quarantine.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tightens-travel-restrictions-due-to-covid-19-cases\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ho Iat Seng<\/a>, Macau\u2019s chief executive, also said&nbsp;<strong>people who plan to travel outside Macau would no longer need to present a negative Covid-19 test<\/strong>&nbsp;issued within 24 hours of departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first week of October, authorities had announced that\u00a0<strong>the mandatory 14-day quarantine<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/zhuhai-keeps-14-day-quarantine-for-inbound-travellers-from-macau\">visitors from Macau<\/a>\u00a0was going to be kept in place due to new Covid-19 cases in Macau in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Macau have said that people who intend to leave Macau must show a negative Covid-19 test issued 48 hours previous to the departure.<\/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 has implemented a new requirement for individuals departing the city by plane or ship to present a negative COVID-19 test within 48 hours of departure, effective immediately. Concurrently, entertainment venues in Macau have reopened, and Zhuhai has eased its 14-day quarantine requirement for arrivals from Macau, signaling a mixed but generally improving trend in regional travel and operational conditions.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of these revised travel restrictions and venue reopenings on Macau's Q4 GGR and NGR forecasts for integrated resort operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Consistency?","query":"How do the new 48-hour pre-departure testing requirements for Macau align with or diverge from broader regional and national public health governance frameworks, and what are the implications for cross-border travel consistency?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721","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=23721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23744,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23721\/revisions\/23744"}],"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=23721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}