{"id":24775,"date":"2021-11-23T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24775"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:35:55","slug":"zhuhai-relaxes-covid-19-restrictions-for-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/zhuhai-relaxes-covid-19-restrictions-for-macau","title":{"rendered":"Zhuhai relaxes Covid-19 restrictions for Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Covid-19 test certificates will now be valid for seven days instead of 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- People who intend to travel from Macau to the neighbouring city of Zhuhai will now be allowed to travel with a negative Covid-19 nucleic acid test certificate issued within seven days.\u00a0The move extends the validity period of tests from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-outbound-travellers-must-present-negative-covid-19-test\">48-hours.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau and Zhuhai is the mainland travel route for mainland Chinese tourists. From September 26 to October 18, the Zhuhai authorities imposed a mandatory quarantine most inbound passengers from Macau due to an outbreak of local Covid-19 cases that had a deep impact on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-faces-new-covid-19-cases-in-october-golden-week\">October Golden Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-continues-negotiating-with-mainland-china-on-e-visas\">Authorities in Macau<\/a>\u00a0are in talks with mainland China about\u00a0<strong>restarting the electronic version of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS)<\/strong>\u00a0but it seems nothing will change in the short term.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 test certificates will now be valid for seven days instead of 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The extension of Covid-19 test certificate validity for Macau-Zhuhai travel from 48 hours to seven days represents a marginal easing of cross-border movement. However, the continued delay in restarting the electronic Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) with mainland China suggests that a significant uplift in gaming tourism and Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for Macau remains unlikely in the immediate term.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IVS Restart Impact","query":"What is the projected timeline and potential GGR uplift for Macau's gaming sector upon the full reinstatement of the electronic Individual Visit Scheme (IVS)?"},{"label":"Operational Adjustments","query":"How are Macau's integrated resort operators adjusting their operational expenditure and marketing strategies in response to these incremental travel easements and the prolonged IVS suspension?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-24775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775","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=24775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24782,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775\/revisions\/24782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}