Authorities in Macau have announced that the neighbouring province of Guangdong has started to conduct mass testing due to a new outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the city of Zhuhai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
China.- Macau\u2019s neighbouring city of Zhuhai <\/strong>in Guangdong province has began mass testing for Covid-19. The testing covers multiple locations, including the border-crossing point Gongbei, the most common way for mainland tourists to enter Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city of Tanzhou <\/strong>also reported a Covid-19 case on Monday morning. The news led to the suspension of several public transport systems that linked the cities of Tanzhou and Zhuhai. Authorities in Tanzhou have ordered mass testing for Covid-19 across the city\u00a0and immediately restricted foreign travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) reported that Macau\u00a0received 694,430 tourists in January<\/a>, down 15.4 per cent month-on-month due to a new outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the region.\u00a0Macau received 642,016 tourists from mainland China<\/strong>, an increase of 29.4 per cent year-on-year. Mainland China remains the only country with a\u00a0largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macau\u2019s economic recovery could be delayed by a new outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong. According to\u00a0Andrew Lee, an analyst at brokerage Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd<\/strong>, a rise in Covid-19 cases is \u201clikely to get worse\u201d and could delay the expansion of quarantine-free travel in the region, negatively affecting Macau\u2019s gaming industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities in Macau have announced that the neighbouring province of Guangdong has started to conduct mass testing due to a new outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the city of Zhuhai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"New COVID-19 outbreaks in Zhuhai and Tanzhou, Guangdong province, have prompted mass testing and travel restrictions, impacting Macau's tourism. This follows a 15.4% month-on-month decline in Macau's January tourist arrivals. Analysts project further delays in quarantine-free travel expansion, negatively affecting Macau's gaming industry's recovery trajectory.","focusai_entities":"Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd, Andrew Lee, Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong, Zhuhai, Tanzhou, China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Q1\/Q2","query":"What is the projected GGR impact on Macau's concessionaires for Q1 and Q2, considering these new travel restrictions and the analyst's outlook?"},{"label":"M&A Implications","query":"How might sustained travel impediments influence the long-term M&A landscape or concession renewal negotiations within Macau's gaming sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-27637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637","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=27637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27651,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637\/revisions\/27651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong could have negative impact on Macau<\/h2>\n\n\n\n